KARACHI:Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah sharing Coronavirus report said on Wednesday that 5,436 samples were tested which detected 357 virus cases constituting seven percent current detection rate.
He added that so far 786,826 tests had been conducted which diagnosed 122,373 cases all over Sindh that showed 16 percent overall detection rate.
Shah said that 14 more patients lost their lives while struggling against coronavirus, lifting the death toll to 2,245 in Sindh that constituted 1.8 percent death rate. He added that currently, 6,132 patients were under treatment; of them 5,696 were in home isolation, nine in isolation centers and 427 in different hospitals. He added that the condition of 274 patients was stated to be critical, including 44 having been shifted to ventilators.
According to the CM, 728 more patients had recovered and returned to normal life. The number of patients recovered so far had reached 113,996. The CM said that out of 357 new cases, 213 had been detected from Karachi, which includes 27 in South, 54 East, 36 Central, 23 Korangi, 16 West and 12 Malir.
Badin has 45 new cases, Jamshoro 10, Dadu, Shikarpur and Tando Mohammad Khan six each, Ghotki and Matiari five each, Hyderabad, Qambar and Sanghar four each, Khairpur and Tando Allahyar three each, Sukkur two, Jacobabad, Larkana and Mirpurkhas one each. The CM urged people of Sindh to make the SOPS part of their lives, otherwise, they would not be able to contain the virus.
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