KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said that six more patients of coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 2,549 and 221 new cases emerged when 7,515 tests were conducted raising the tally to 140,131.

In a statement issued here from CM House on Saturday, the Mr Shah said that 7,515 samples were tested which diagnosed 221 new cases that came to 2.9 per cent current detection rate.

He said that so far 1,464,598 tests had been conducted which detected 140,131 patients, of them 95pc or 132,796 patients recovered, including 237 overnight.

The chief minister said that 4,786 patients were under treatment, of them 4,491 in home isolation, six at isolation centres and 289 in different hospitals. “The condition of 187 patients is stated to be critical, including 32 shifted to ventilators,” he added.

Mr Shah said that out of 221 new cases, 59 were detected in Karachi, of them 28 in East, 14 in South, six in Central, five each in Malir, West and Korangi.

He said that Hyderabad had 11 cases, Jamshoro eight, Larkana and Sukkur five each, Ghotki and Mirpurkhas three each, Shaheed Benazirabad, Tando Mohammad Khan and Jacobabad two each, Dadu and Umerkot one each.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2020