Pakistan's sixth coronavirus case confirmed, says Dr Zafar Mirza.

KARACHI -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza said on Thursday that the sixth case of the coronavirus in Pakistan had been confirmed.

Taking to Twitter, Dr Mirza said that the patient "is in clinically stable condition in Sindh and is being well taken care of".

Earlier, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah was told during a meeting at the CM House on Thursday that another person had contracted the novel coronavirus from Karachi.

The chief minister reportedly directed the provincial government to have all those who came into contact with the person tested for the virus.

The Sindh government has been grappling with the coronavirus problem as tww cases of the novel virus were confirmed in Pakistan last week, one in Karachi.

'We have received reports of two more positive cases of coronavirus, one has been reported in Sindh province, (the) other in federal areas,' Dr Mirza had said during a press conference.

The virus has entered 76 countries and claimed more than 3,100 deaths and infecting over 80,000 people around the world ever since it began spreading from the wet markets of Wuhan in China.

As a precautionary measure, the...