KARACHI:As many as five more patients of COVID-19 died overnight in Sindh, lifting the death toll to 2,684 while 627 new cases emerged when 14,343 tests were conducted.
In a statement issued here from CM House on Sunday, the chief minister said that the virus death ratio in Sindh had been recorded at 1.8 percent. Shah said that 14,343 samples were tested which diagnosed 627 cases that constituted 4.3 percent current detection rate.
He added that so far, 1,728,156 tests had been conducted which diagnosed 150,167 cases, of them 95 percent or 140,550 patients had recovered, including 142 overnight.
The CM said that currently, 6,935 patients were under treatment, of them 6,658 were in home isolation, four at isolation centers and 273 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 245 patients was stated to be critical, of them 31 had been shifted to ventilators.
According to the statement, out of 627 new cases, 507 had been detected from Karachi, of them 202 from East, 181 South, 59 Central, 31 Korangi, 26 Malir and eight West. Hyderabad has 34 cases, Thatta 10, Matiari eight, Khairpur and Larkana six each, Sukkur five, Sujawal, Naushehro Feroze and Shaheed Benazirabad three each, Mirpurkhas, Tando Allahayar, Umerkot, Ghotki, Kambar and Dadu two each, Badin, Kashmore and Sanghar one each.
The chief minister urged people of the province to follow the SOPs issued by his government.