KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that four more patients of COVID-19 died overnight, with 304 new cases across Sindh.
This he said in a statement issued here from CM House on Saturday. The chief minister said that the virus death toll in Sindh had reached 2,598 that constituted 1.8 percent death rate.
He said 9,374 tests were conducted against which 304 new cases had emerged that constituted 3.2 percent current detection rate. So far, 1,581,760 samples had been tested which diagnosed 143,526 cases, of them 95 percent or 136,518 patients had recovered, including 162 overnight.
Shah said that currently, 4,410 patients were under treatment, of them 4,151 were in home isolation, four in isolation centers and 253 in different hospitals. He added that the condition of 152 patients was stated to be critical, of them 18 had been shifted to ventilators.
Shah said that out of 304 new cases, 244 had been detected from Karachi, of them 86 from South, 74 East, 41 Korangi, 23 Central, 10 each in Malir and West. He stated that Hyderabad had 10 cases, Shikarpur five, Ghotki and Shaheed Benazirabad four each, Thatta, Naushehro Feroze and Sujawal three each, Badin two, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Larkana, Matiari, Sukkur and Umerkot one each.