Karachi, November 22, 2021 (PPI-OT):Fortunately, no death stemming from Coronavirus reported on Sunday, however 162 new cases emerged when 10,336 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here from CM House on Monday.
Mr Shah said that fortunately no death was reported on Monday. He added that till last Sunday the number death and was 7,611. Mr. Shah said that 10,336 samples were tested which detected 162 cases that constituted 1.6 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 6,658,030 tests have been conducted against which 473,348 cases were diagnosed, of them 97.2 percent or 459,903 patients have recovered, including 7044 overnight.
The CM said that currently 5,834 patients were under treatment, of them 5,639 were in home isolation, 20 at isolation centers and 175 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 172 patients was stated to be critical, including 16 shifted to ventilators.
According to the statement, out of 162 new cases, 22 have been detected from Karachi, including 13 from East, Central and South 4 each, 1 Korangi. Hyderabad has 44, Shaheed Benazirabad 18, Sanghar 14, Matiari 11, Dadu and Naushero Feroze 10 each, Badin 8, Sujawal 6, Larkana 5, Tando Allahyar, Umerkot and Tharparkar 4 each, Mirpurkhas 2.
Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 23,483,540 vaccinations have been administered upto November 20th, and added during the last 24 hours 69,141 vaccines were inoculated – in total 23,552,681 vaccines have administered which constituted 43.90 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.
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