Eight women from K-P quarantined in Matiari seminary
Though district focal person claims tests are available, none of the 61 suspected patients have been testedKARACHI / HYDERABAD: At least eight women from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), all members of Tableeghi Jamaat, have been quarantined at a seminary in Matiari district, confirmed health department officials while talking to The Express Tribune on Friday. “They were quarantined here after law enforcement agencies and health department officials were alerted following the emergence of positive cases in other districts,” he said. In Nawabshah, a health department team took samples of 17 people among roughly 200 people at the Usmania seminary. Meanwhile, in Moro taluka, Naushero Feroze district, authorities quarantined 26 people at a mosque in Muhammad Ibrahim village and a seminary on the Dadu-Moro road. Health department officials collected samples of all 26 people, who had recently travelled to Raiwind, Punjab.
Source: The Express Tribune April 03, 2020 20:26 UTC
