KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday said that coronavirus had claimed four more lives overnight lifting the death toll to 2,566 and infected 241 others raising the tally to 140,997.

In a statement issued here from CM House, he said that 177 more patients recovered overnight. The number of patients recovered so far has reached 133,651 that came to 95 per cent recovery rate, he added.

The CM said that 9,234 tests were conducted against which 241 cases were detected that came to 2.6pc current detection rate. “So far 1,501,018 samples have been tested which diagnosed 140,997 cases all over Sindh that constituted overall 9.4 per cent detection rate,” he added.

According to the CM, currently 4,780 patients are under treatment, of them 4,529 are in home isolation, six at isolation centres and 245 at different hospitals. The condition of 188 patients is stated to be critical, including 25 shifted to ventilators.

Murad Ali Shah said that out of 241 new cases, 145 were detected in Karachi, including 59 in South, 44 in East, 20 in Korangi, 12 in West, seven in Central and three in Malir.

He said that Naushahro Feroze had 10 cases, Badin seven, Matiari six, Sanghar five, Dadu, Hyderabad and Thatta four each, Tando Mohammad Khan and Jamshoro three each, Larkana, Mirpurkhas and Tando Allahyar two each, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Shaheed Benazirabad and Sukkur had one case each.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2020