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KARACHI -- One more case of coronavirus has been diagnosed on Thursday evening and now the number of cases in Sindh has come to three.

This was disclosed in the meeting of Taskforce on Coronavirus held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here on Thursday at CM House.

The chief minister said that he was taking all out efforts to contain the coronavirus but unfortunately third case has emerged. He directed health department to isolate the family members of the new patient and even trace all those who he was in close contact.

The meeting was attended by Minister Health Dr Azra Pechuho, Minister Local govt Nasir Shah, Advisor Law Murtaza Wahab, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, IG Sindh Mushtaq Maher, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shahalwani, Home Secretary Usman Chachar, Adl IG Karachi Ghulam Nabi Memon, Secretary Health Zahid Abbasi, DG PDMA Salman Shah, Dr Faisal of Aga Khan, representatives of Rangers, Corps -5, Civil Aviation, Airport and FIA.

The chief minister was told that six samples of coronavirus suspects were sent for lab test, of them one has been declared as positive and another one negative, while the result of four samples were being awaited.

The new patient is 69 years old. He is male and belongs to District East of Karachi. He has the history of visiting Iran.

The chief minister was informed that so far 251 test of coronavirus suspects have been conducted all over Pakistan which include 59 in Islamabad, 75 Punjab, 68 in Sindh, KPK 24, Balochistan eight, AJK three and Gilgit Baltistan 14. Out of 251 tests only six cases have been diagnosed as positive, of them two are in Balochistan, three in Sindh and one in Gilgit Baltistan.

The meeting was told that the total numbers of pilgrims have been calculated at 2355, of them 1748 have completed 14 days quarantine and have no symptoms of the virus, 497 are in quarantine at their home and 110 are still untraceable. The chief...