KARACHI: The Sindh province found 713 new Covid-19 positive cases out of 10,480 tested samples overnight while 16 more died lifting the death toll to 2,151 and tally of the infected cases to 118,311. The Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah stated on Sunday from the CM House.

The chief minister said 713 new cases out of 10,480 samples constituted seven percent current detection rate. He added that so far 709,806 samples have been tested which diagnosed 118,311 cases all over Sindh that constituted an overall 17 percent detection rate.

Murad Shah said 16 deaths came to 1.8 percent death rate. He added that 3,384 patients recovered overnight. The number of patients recovered so far has reached 107,403 that constituted a 91 percent recovery rate. The CM said currently 8,757 patients were under treatment, of them 8,261 in home isolation, 16 at Isolation centers and 480 at different hospitals.

The condition of 415 patients is stated to be critical, including 65 who have been shifted to ventilators, he said. The chief minister said that out of 713 new cases of coronavirus, 298 have been detected from six districts of Karachi division.

They include 99 East, 69 South, 54 Central, 36 Korangi, 24 Malir and 16 West. He added that Khairpur has 38 new cases, Naushehroferoze and Shikarpur 29 each, Hyderabad 27, Umerkot 26, Ghotki and Thatta 25 each, Mirpurkhas 22, Shaheed Benazirabad 21, Jamshoro 20, Sanghar 15, Dadu 14, Matiara 13, Larkana 10, Shikarpur nine, Sujawal eight, Jacobabad seven, Badin five and Tando Allahyar four. The chief minister urged people of Sindh to follow the guidelines issued by the government.

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