KARACHI: Six more patients of Covid-19 died overnight, lifting the death toll to 2,551, while 163 new cases emerged when 8,497 samples were tested, raising the tally to 140,294.
The six casualties constituted 1.8 per cent death rate, said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Sunday from the CM House.
Mr Shah said that 8,497 samples were tested against which 163 new cases of the coronavirus were diagnosed that came to 1.9 per cent current detection rate.
He said that so far 1,473,095 tests had been conducted which detected 140,294 cases, of them 95 per cent or 132,933 patients recovered, including 137 overnight.
The CM said that currently 4,810 patients were under treatment, of them 4,506 in home isolation, six at isolation centers and 298 at different hospitals.
The condition of 148 was stated to be critical, including 22 shifted to ventilators, he added.
According to the CM, out of 163 new cases, 22 cases have been detected in Karachi, including 14 in District East, five in Central, two in Malir, and one in District West.
Published in Dawn, October 12th, 2020
