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Infection to Recovery; COVID-19 in Pakistan and its Implications

Subject: Life Science and Biomedicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2020

Sadia Zia*
Affiliation:
Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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*Corresponding author: Email: sadia.zia@ucp.edu.pk

Abstract

The New pandemic is hitting all around the world in different manner. The infection rate, prevalence and severity is not patronized in many countries. Pakistan is now attaining the peak in its cases. Around 108,317 confirmed cases are present in Pakistan and 71,127 are currently active cases1. The recovery rate is 32%. The dangerous situation about the infection prevalence is that most of the people either are asymptomatic of having mild symptoms. An estimation release from Primary Health Department of Punjab claims that almost 670,000 cases are asymptomatic in only Lahore city 2. This correspondence is about an infected family of 5 people 3 males and 2 females in Lahore, Pakistan. Who were exposed with virus and one after one got the infection, the two males deceased but rest of family member are recovered.

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Type
Research Article
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Result type: Replication, Supplementary result
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press
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Reviewing editor:  Martin Michaelis University of Kent, School of Biosciences, Canterbury, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, CT2 7NJ
This article has been accepted because it is deemed to be scientifically sound, has the correct controls, has appropriate methodology and is statistically valid, and met required revisions.

Review 1: Infection to Recovery; COVID-19 in Pakistan and its Implications

Conflict of interest statement

Reviewer declares none

Comments

Comments to the Author: Here, I would like to thank the editor and the authors for allowing me to review this article.

Presentation

Overall score 5 out of 5
Is the article written in clear and proper English? (30%)
5 out of 5
Is the data presented in the most useful manner? (40%)
5 out of 5
Does the paper cite relevant and related articles appropriately? (30%)
5 out of 5

Context

Overall score 4.8 out of 5
Does the title suitably represent the article? (25%)
4 out of 5
Does the abstract correctly embody the content of the article? (25%)
5 out of 5
Does the introduction give appropriate context? (25%)
5 out of 5
Is the objective of the experiment clearly defined? (25%)
5 out of 5

Analysis

Overall score 5 out of 5
Does the discussion adequately interpret the results presented? (40%)
5 out of 5
Is the conclusion consistent with the results and discussion? (40%)
5 out of 5
Are the limitations of the experiment as well as the contributions of the experiment clearly outlined? (20%)
5 out of 5

Review 2: Infection to Recovery; COVID-19 in Pakistan and its Implications

Conflict of interest statement

I declare no competing interest

Comments

Comments to the Author: The authors tried in this manuscript to discuss the situation of COVID-19 in Pakistan which is important. However; using the example of the family with inappropriate in this context. I recommend to remove this and keep the data.

Presentation

Overall score 4 out of 5
Is the article written in clear and proper English? (30%)
4 out of 5
Is the data presented in the most useful manner? (40%)
4 out of 5
Does the paper cite relevant and related articles appropriately? (30%)
4 out of 5

Context

Overall score 3.2 out of 5
Does the title suitably represent the article? (25%)
4 out of 5
Does the abstract correctly embody the content of the article? (25%)
3 out of 5
Does the introduction give appropriate context? (25%)
3 out of 5
Is the objective of the experiment clearly defined? (25%)
3 out of 5

Analysis

Overall score 3.6 out of 5
Does the discussion adequately interpret the results presented? (40%)
4 out of 5
Is the conclusion consistent with the results and discussion? (40%)
4 out of 5
Are the limitations of the experiment as well as the contributions of the experiment clearly outlined? (20%)
2 out of 5