Coronavirus threat: Isolation wards established at Karachi's hospitals.

KARACHI -- Amid coronavirus threat isolation wards have been established at Civil Hospital Karachi, Aga Khan Hospital and DOW University's Ojha campus.According to the Sindh Health department officials, the kits and other related equipment to detect the virus have been provided to Pakistan.

Not a single case of coronavirus has been reported in Sindh province, so far, the health officials said.

Earlier in the day, a Pakistani student who had recently arrived in Karachi from virus-hit Wuhan had been shifted to a private hospital's isolation ward due to coronavirus threat.

Arsalan would be kept in an isolation ward of the hospital for at least fourteen days, according to the provincial...

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