KARACHI:As many as three more patient of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,634 and 255 new cases emerged when 17,291 tests were conducted.
This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Friday. He added that three more patients of COVID-19 lost his life lifting the death toll to 7,634 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate. Mr. Shah said that 17,291 samples were tested which detected 255 cases that constituted 1.5 percent current detection rate.
He added that so far 6,865,146 tests have been conducted against which 476,636 cases were diagnosed, of them 97.6 percent or 465,266 patients have recovered, including 30 overnight. The CM said that currently 3,736 patients were under treatment, of them 3,588 were in home isolation, 20 at isolation centers and 128 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 125 patients was stated to be critical, including 08 shifted to ventilators. According to the statement, out of 255 new cases, 36 have been detected from Karachi, including 13 from Korangi, seven Central, South six, East and West five each.
Sukkur has 25, Hyderabad 23, Shikarpur 19, Qambar 15, Dadu 14, Jamshoro and Ghotki 13 each, Jacobabad 12, Tando Muhammad Khan 11, Mirpurkhas and Shaheed Benazirabad ten each, Sanghar, Tando Allahyar and Tharparkar eight each, Kashmore and Thatta seven each, Sujawal six, Matiari, Umerkot and Badin three each and Khairpur one.
Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 25,380,098 vaccinations have been administered upto December 9th, and added during the last 24 hours 164,416 vaccines were inoculated – in total 25,544,514 vaccines have administered which constituted 46.84 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.