Pakistan wins rare, fragile success against novel coronavirus
Hardly anyone wears a mask or follows government-mandated social distancing guidelines at Islamabad's busy Karachi Company market.
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Article Author: Pakistan wins rare, fragile success against novel coronavirus
Media Source: Al Jazeera (Qatar)
Date: 25 August 2020
South Asian nation of 200 million seems to have won the fight against COVID-19 but fear of a second wave remains. At present, the hospital's 90-bed Covid-19 ward only has 14 patients - a far cry from June, when patients' families in Karachi and other cities told Al Jazeera they were having difficulty finding hospital beds for…
South Asian nation of 200 million seems to have won the fight against COVID-19 but fear of a second wave remains. At present, the hospital's 90-bed Covid-19 ward only has 14 patients - a far cry from June, when patients' families in Karachi and other cities told Al Jazeera they were having difficulty finding hospital beds for their dying relatives. "The decrease in numbers is real, there is no doubt there," says Dr Faisal Mahmood, Head of infectious diseases at Karachi's Aga Khan University Hospital, the country's largest research hospital.