Covid-19 claims 9 more lives, infects 319 in Sindh

24 Aug, 2020

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said that Coronavirus has claimed nine more lives lifting death toll to 2367 and infected 319 others raising the tally to 128,284. Shah said that 319 new cases of Coronavirus emerged when 9027 samples were tested that constituted four percent current detection rate.

So far 953,027 samples have been tested which detected 128,284 cases that came to overall 13 percent detection rate. Murad Ali Shah said that 771 patients recovered overnight and overall 121,915 patients have recovered so far that constituted 95 percent recovery rate.

The CM said that currently 4002 patients were under treatment, of them 3677 in home isolation, seven at Isolation Centres and 318 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 190 patients was stated to be critical, of them 31 have been shifted to ventilators.

According to CM, out of 319 new cases, 160 have been detected from Karachi, including 71 from South, 59 East, 15 Central, eight Korangi, six Malir and one West. Dadu has 26 cases, Hyderabad 19, Kambar 15, Sanghar 13, Thatta 10, Khairpur nine, Tando Allahyar and Jamshoro seven each, Matiari and Shaheed Benazirabad five each, Mirpurkhas, Tando Mohammad Khan, Ghotki and Sujawal four each, Badin and Umerkot three each, Naushehroferoze two, Jacobabad, Larkana, Shikarpur and Sukkur one each.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020

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