KARACHI:Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, giving his regular video briefing to the people of the country in general and Sindh in particular, said that during last 24 hour, till afternoon of April 8, two more patients lost their lives while fighting against coronavirus infection apart from detecting 50 more cases.
In the video message released from CM House, the chief minister shared data of COVID-19 upto the morning of April 8 as saying that the provincial government conducted 785 more tests, of them 50 samples were found to be positive. The number of tests conducted so far came to 10981 while total cases upto the morning of April 7, were 896 and after detection of 50 more cases, the tally had risen to 1036.
The chief minister said that two patients expired between April 7 to April 8 morning. The death toll in coronavirus had reached to 20. The number of coronavirus patients, according to the chief minister is 1036, of them 382 are in home isolation and 97 at isolation centers and 257 patients are under treatment at different hospitals of the province. Out of 1036 cases, 637 are locally transmitted.
Shah discussing seriousness of coronavirus threat in Pakistan said that on February 26, there was one case, after 30 days, March 25, the tally reached 1000 cases, just after seven days means on April 1, the number of cases rose to 2000 and then after six days or April 6, the number of cases reached 3000 and on April 7 or just after one day, we have 4000 cases in the country. Therefore, the strategy must be based on the ground reality.
The chief minister urged the people to observe social distancing as ha been advised by the experts. He added that few more days were left to ease the lockdown, therefore, the reaming days of the lockdown must be observed strictly.