Karachi, June 08, 2020 (PPI-OT): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Monday that 1447 new coronavirus cases had been detected by testing 8513 samples while 29 more patients died of the virus, taking the disease death toll to 679 across Sindh. In a statement issued here from the CM House, the chief minister said that he had enhanced the testing capacity to 8,600 per day. “Utilizing our 99 percent testing capacity, we tested 8,513 samples against which 1,447 new cases of coronavirus emerged that constituted 17 percent,” the CM said and added that so far, 139,522 samples had been tested which diagnosed 39,555 cases as positive which constituted 16.5 percent.
According to Shah, 29 more patients died of the virus overnight and the number of patients lost their lives due to coronavirus so far has reached 679 which constitutes 1.7 percent. He added that 19,739 patients were under treatment, of them 18,263 were at home isolation, 60 at isolation centers and 1416 at different hospitals.
The CM disclosed that 435 patients were in critical condition, among them 83 were on ventilators. He prayed for their early recovery. He said that 468 more patients recovered overnight and returned to their normal life. The number of patients recovered so far has reached 19,137 which constituted 48.3 percent of the total patients.
Shah said that out of 1,447 cases of the province, 963 alone belonged to Karachi. They include 284 to East, 237 Central, South 214, Malir 130, Korangi 63 and West 35. He added that Hyderabad has 54 cases, Shaheed Benazirabad 39, Larkana and Sanghar 36 each, Ghotki 34, Khairpur 33, Jamshoro 17, Dadu 14, Badin 13, Kashmore 11, Mirpurkhas nine, Sukkur eight, Matiari and Naushehroferoze two each, Tando Allahyar, Tando Mohammad Khan, Umerkot and Kambar have one case each.
Analyzing the situation, Shah said that detection of new cases had come down from 22 to 17 percent, death ratio which used to be around 1.5 percent had increased to 1.7 percent and the recovery ratio had come down from 50.1 percent to 48 percent. “This shows the problem is aggravating and we have to be more careful and realistic in adopting a new lifestyle – that is how to live with the virus,” he said and urged the people to adopt SOPs, wear masks and avoid going into crowds.
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