KARACHI: The Sindh government is mulling a complete lockdown in Karachi as the city’s hospitals are “nearing saturation point”, members from the provincial task force on coronavirus.
The task force’s members said the final decision to impose a lockdown in the port city would be taken in a meeting today at 11am, with Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah in the chair.
Provincial government officials told that medical experts within the task force have asked for a complete 14-day lockdown in the city.
“Hospitals are nearing a saturation point with cases in Karachi rising rapidly,” the task force members said, adding that the Sindh government was consulting stakeholders on the imposition of a lockdown.
