KARACHI: New 274 positive cases of Covid-19 were emerged out of 9,311 tested samples and one more patient died lifting the death toll to 2358, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said in a statement issued here on Saturday.
He said new cases constituted 3 percent current detection rate. So far 944,000 samples have been tested which detected 127,965 cases all over Sindh, of them 95 percent or 121,144 patients have recovered, including 268 overnight.
The statement says that after one more demise, the death rate came to 1.8 percent.
Murad Shah said currently 4,463 patients were under treatment, of them 4142 in home isolation, seven at isolation centers and 314 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 223 patients was stated to be critical, including 31 have been shifted to ventilators. The CM said out of 274 new cases, 110 have been detected from Karachi, including 33 from South, 30 East, 25 Central, 12 Malir, seven West and three Korangi.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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