KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday said that coronavirus had claimed four more lives overnight lifting the death toll to 2,455 and 307 new cases emerged when 13,787 samples were tested raising the tally to 133,125.
In a statement, he said that 178 more patients recovered overnight taking the number of recovered patients to 127,991, forming a 96 per cent recovery rate.
He added that so far 1,186,005 tests were conducted diagnosing 133,125 cases all over Sindh that came to 11pc overall detection rate.
According to the CM, currently 2,679 patients are under treatment, of them 2,400 in home isolation, four at isolation centres and 275 at different hospitals. “The condition of 173 patients is stated to be critical, including 23 shifted to ventilators,” he added. Murad Ali Shah said that out of 307 new cases 163 were detected from Karachi, including 58 in East, 52 in South, 22 in Korangi, 18 in Central, eight in Malir and five in West.
He said that Jamshoro had 28 cases, Matiari 18, Khairpur 14, Dadu 10, Hyderabad nine, Larkana four, Qambar, Sukkur and Sujawal three each, Mirpurkhas, Tando Mohammad Khan and Shaheed Benazirabad two each, Naushahro Feroze, Kashmore, Thatta and Umerkot had one case each.
Published in Dawn, September 18th, 2020
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