covid-19 pakistan updates
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Sindh has reported 1,439 new coronavirus cases, taking theprovincial total to 31,086. Moreover, the province reported23 more deaths. So far, 358 patients are in critical conditionwhile 64 are on ventilators. The Sindh government revealed that the number of femalepatients of the novel coronavirus has increased afterrelaxations in lockdown were introduced ahead of Eid ul Fitr.Earlier, 33 patients out of every 100 were women. Now, thepercentage of women being infected has gone up to 28.5%in the past 10 days. Additionally, inter city transport remainssuspended in the province
A pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh, Beximcohas sent Bemsivir — the world's first approvedgeneric Remdesivir for critically ill coronaviruspatients in Pakistan. 48 vials/injections of themedicine have been on "humanitarian grounds". The Balochistan government has extended the"smart lockdown" in the province till June 16. Now, allshops, markets etc. will remain open six days of theweek from 9am to 7pm while there will be acomplete lockdown on Fridays. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reported 412 more casesof the novel coronavirus, while 8 more deaths werereported in the province, raising the death toll to482. The deaths occurred 3 in Peshawar, 1 eachin Mardan, Swat, Kohat, Abbottabad, Dir Lower. Punjab has reported 1,610 new cases of the novelcoronavirus, while recording 43 more deathsreported in the last 24 hours taking the totalprovincial death tally to 540. In Punjab’s city Sialkot, 13 doctors and one nurse ofthe Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital testedpositive for coronavirus.
Total Deaths
COVID-19 Pakistan Updates
76,398
Situation Report
3,938 27,110 1,621Cases in last 24 hrs
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National Updates
Civil Hospital staff using PPEs provided by HHRD while working at NICU Civil Hospital Thar.
International Rescue Committee (IRC), under the ConCACE project, conducted a total of 189 awarenessraising sessions by Community Mobilizers and volunteers following the SOPs. The numbers of the IRChotline and SMS feedback channels have also been shared with the attendees as a convenient source forfact-checking and assistance.
Risk communication
Oxfam in Pakistan disseminated ration bags through women leader groups amongst 5527 poor familiesin Sindh on a self-help basis. Additionally, it distributed ration bags amongst 120 families in KhyberPakhtunkhwa and 710 in Punjab through Women Led Groups.
Food Security & Livelihood
Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) provided 7,800 PPE kits among different districtsthrough Deputy Commissioners, PDMAs and hospitals, including provision of PPE kits to front line healthworkers of Thar civil hospital. Helvatas International trained group leaders of rice transplanting communities in Sheikhupura. They werealso trained on safe farm operation to prepare them for the upcoming rice transplanting season.
Health
Provincial Stats
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Daily increase in Provincial COVID-19 cases
PHF Member Response:
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a case report form for suspected cases of multisystem inflammatorysyndrome (MIS) in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID-19. Since the start of the pandemic, there has been an urgent need to accelerate the research and development of COVID-19candidate vaccines. WHO has been supporting this effort. Currently over 120 candidate vaccines have been mapped andsites in 40 countries have expressed an interest to join the Vaccine Solidarity Trial. The document is attached in the email.
WHO/Global Updates
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Contact InformationSyed Shahid KazmiCountry CoordinatorPakistan Humanitarian ForumMob: +92 345 855 0074Email: [email protected]
Sania Ali KhanCommunication OfficerPakistan Humanitarian ForumMob: +92 334 533 2287E mail: [email protected]
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IRC community mobilizers conducted awareness sessions on COVID-19 prevention in Sindh