KARACHI: Congo virus claimed another life here on Sunday after which the death toll due to the disease mounted to two.
Jinnah Hospital Director Seemi Jamali said that Tazeem Faizan, 70, was shifted to the hospital two days earlier, where he was found to be infected with Congo virus.
After the detection of the virus, Tazeem was under treatment at a private hospital where he breathed his last on Sunday.
A couple of days earlier, a 35-year-old lady had died of Congo virus in Orangi Town.
According to health experts, symptoms of Congo virus include backache, joints pain, pain in the abdomen, high fever and bleeding from any part of the body.
