For long they have been trying to make the area’s dissidents understand the dangers of disregarding lockdown instructions but in vain. On being informed, local administration officials, with the help of police, traced him and forcibly shifted him to an isolation centre late at night. There, most infected persons reside along the length of a main road, Atmaram Pritamdas Road aka Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai Road, on both sides. Seeking a different solutionActivists, health officials and local administration officials attribute Lyari’s resistance to lockdown instruction to the social structure of the old city locality. Currently, Lyari General Hospital has a 100-bed isolation facility while another 100-bed isolation centre is expected to be established at the hospital this week.

Source: The Express Tribune April 28, 2020 15:45 UTC