KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that six more patients lost their lives, lifting the death toll to 2436, while 146 more test positive for Covid-19 when 9,292 tests were conducted increasing the tally to 131,115.
This he said in a statement issued here on Wednesday from CM House.
Shah said that six more patients lost their lives while struggling against Covid-19 lifting the death toll to 2436 that constituted 1.9 percent death rate. He added that 168 patients recovered. The number of patients recovered so far has reached 126,603 that came to a 97 percent recovery rate.
The CM said that 9,292 samples were tested which detected 146 new cases that constituted two percent detection rate. So far 1,082,367 samples have been tested which diagnosed 131,115 cases all over Sindh that came to 12 percent overall detection rate.
According to Shah, currently 2076 patients are under treatment, of them 1767 in home isolation, six at isolation centres and 303 at different hospitals. The condition of 152 patients is stated to be critical, including 20 shifted on ventilators, he said.
Murad Ali Shah said that out of 146 new cases of coronavirus, 62 have been detected from Karachi, of them 32 from Korangi, nine from Malir, six each from Central and East and three from District West. He added that Thatta has 15 cases, Hyderabad seven, Ghotki six, Larkana five, Umerkot and Badin three each, Dadu, Shaheed Benazirabad and Sukkur two each.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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