Train turned into quarantine facility for COVID-19 patients in Pakistan.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Railways' Karachi Division has taken a significant step to assist the administration for containing the fast spread of coronavirus pandemic by turning a passenger train into quarantine facility for COVID-19 patients, media reported on Monday.

The officials of the PR Karachi Division sad a special train has been deployed as a quarantine facility to isolate patients infected with COVID-19. They said PR employees and workers could avail the medical facilities at the special train at Karachi's Cantt Station.

Pakistan passenger train quarantine facility coronavirus isolation

The quarantine train comprises three air-conditioned sleepers and two business-class bogies having the capacity to put 36 patients in isolation under the proper observation of the physicians. The officials said the capacity of isolation rooms could be expanded as per requirement.

Pakistan passenger train quarantine facility coronavirus isolation

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