KARACHI: Sindh health authorities have reported 25 deaths due to coronavirus lifting the death toll to 4,157 while 324 new cases emerged when 9,599 tests were conducted in Sindh.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement said 25 more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 4,157 that constituted a 1.6 percent death rate.
He said that 9,599 samples were tested which detected 324 cases that constituted a 3.4 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 2,820,284 tests have been conducted against which 251,757 cases were diagnosed, of the 91 percent or 228,592 patients have recovered, including 644 overnight.
Currently, 19,008 patients were under treatment; of them, 18,460 were in home isolation, 8 at isolation centers and 540 at different hospitals, the CM said. The condition of 497 patients was stated to be critical, including 66 shifted to ventilators, he informed.
According to the statement, out of 324 new cases, 167 have been detected from Karachi, including 66 from East, 56 South, 18 Malir, 14 West, 12 Central, and 1 Korangi. Hyderabad has 31, Mirpurkhas 20, Jamshoro 18, Sujawal 17, Ghotki 10, Matiari 9, Sukkur 8, Badin and Jacobabad 6 each, Nausheroferoze and Umerkot 4 each, Shaheed Benazirabad and Tando Muhammad Khan 2 each, Khairpur, Larkana, Tando Allahyar and Sanghar 1 each.
