KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday said that overnight 36 more patients of coronavirus died and 1,468 people contracted the virus lifting the death toll to 1,231 and tally of the cases to 102,368.

In a statement issued from CM House, he said that 36 Covid-19 patients lost their lives during the past 24 hours lifting the death toll to 1,713. “As many as 1,468 new cases of coronavirus have emerged when 10,276 samples were tested that constituted 14 per cent current detection rate”.

Mr Shah said that so far 553,676 samples had been tested against which 102,368 cases were detected across the province. He added that the overall detection rate stood at 18.5pc.

According to the chief minister, 41,490 patients are under treatment and 39,859 of them are in home isolation, 400 at isolation centres and 1,231 at different hospitals.

He said that currently the condition of 1,069 patients was stated to be critical and 113 of them had been shifted to ventilators.

Mr Shah said that 1,538 more patients recovered, adding that the number of patients recovered so far had reached to 59,165 that constituted 58pc recovery rate.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2020