NCOC, Sindh deliberate strategy to tackle Covid.

ISLAMABAD -- As over 70 per cent coronavirus cases across the country are being reported from Karachi alone, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday held a meeting with Sindh health officials to formulate a strategy at provincial level.

While the national positivity rate was 2.42pc, it was as high as 9.21pc in Karachi.

At least two Covid-19 patients died and 333 new cases were reported from across the country during the past one day, besides 85 patients were in critical condition, official data shows.

240 of 333 new cases reported from Karachi

According to a statement, on a direction of Minister for National Health Services Abdul Qadir Patel, an NCOC team arranged the meeting with Sindh health officials to formulate a strategy at provincial level amid slight rise in Covid-19 cases in Karachi. The meeting discussed increasing testing, contact tracing and implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions, especially mask wearing at all crowded places, and domestic travel by air, railways or road, the statement...