Both coronavirus patients stable and improving: Dr Zafar Mirza

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health, Dr Zafar Mirza said on Thursday that the two patients who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus in Pakistan were “stable and improving”.

Taking to Twitter, the prime minister’s aide informed his followers about the update of the two patients who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus on Wednesday.

224/ Both patients of #COVIDー19 are stable and improving. Contacts traced until now and tested are all negative, Alhamdililah

— Zafar Mirza (@zfrmrza) February 27, 2020

“Both patients of #COVIDー19 are stable and improving. Contacts traced until now and tested are all negative, Alhamdililah,” he tweeted.

Dr Mirza had announced on Wednesday that two patients, both who had gone to Iran recently, had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. He said that Pakistan was taking active steps to ensure that the virus did not spread to other parts of the country and was contained.

He later said while speaking to a private news channel that the families of the two patients had also tested negative for the coronavirus.

More than 2,700 people have died as a result of the coronavirus around the world. Most of the deaths have taken place in China while around 20 people died in Iran as well.