KARACHI: Covid-19 has claimed 31 more lives lifting the death toll to 1,826 while found 1,089 new cases out of 8,929 tested samples raising the tally to 106,622, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah told on Monday.
In a statement issued here from the CM House, the chief minister said overnight 1,089 new cases out of 8,929 samples constituted 12 percent current detection rate. He added 584,596 tests have been conducted so far across Sindh against which 106,622 cases were diagnosed that constituted an overall 18 percent detection rate.
Murad Shah told that 31 more deaths lifted the death toll to 1,826 that came to 1.7 percent. He added that overnight 1,871 patients recovered and returned to normal life. The number of patients recovered so far comes to 63,829 constituting recovery rate to 60 percent, he said.
According to the CM, currently 40,967 patients are under treatment, of them 39375 are in home isolation, 398 at Isolation centers and 1194 in different hospitals. The condition of 843 patients is stated to be critical, among them 121 have been shifted to ventilators.
Sharing district-wise figures of the new cases, the chief minister said that out of 1826 cases Karachi 312 cases. South has 105, East 80, Central 48, Korangi 32, Malir 32 and West 15. He added that Ghotki has 127, Shaheed Benazirabad 106, Sukkur 73, Dadu 58, Shikarpur 44, Hyderabad 37, Naushehroferoze 33, Sanghar 30, Kashmore 28, Tando Allahyar 25, Mirpurkhas 23, Jamshoro 19, Badin 14, Umerkot 12, Sujawal 11, Larkana six, Jacobabad, Khairpur and Thatta five each, Kambar, Matiari and Tando Mohammad Khan have one each case. The chief minister urged people of Sindh to make the SOPs part of life.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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