Dr Abid Azhar says COVID-19 cannot even sustai­n an hour in hot weathe­r condit­ionKARACHI: Despite no exact vaccination to counter novel coronavirus has been developed yet, chances are high that a patient may recover or cure within 15 to 20 days from the contagious disease. So far 19 Pakistanis have been tested positive for COVID-19 with 15 of them belong to Sindh, three to Gilgit-Baltistan and one to Balochistan. He said that more than 115,000 people around the globe have been affected with the coronavirus while over 4,000 people have died. While addressing the audience associate professor Dr Saima Saleem said that novel coronavirus will not sustain even an hour in the hot weather. Moreover, all educational institutions in Sindh and Balochistan have been closed till March 13 over fear of the contagious disease’s outbreak.

Source: The Express Tribune March 10, 2020 18:39 UTC