KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said that four more patients of Covid-19 died overnight lifting the death toll to 2,598 and 304 new cases emerged when 9,374 samples were tested raising the tally to 143,526.

In a statement, he said that so far 1,581,760 samples had been tested diagnosing 143,526 cases, of them 95 per cent patients had recovered, including 162 overnight.

Mr Shah said that currently 4,410 patients were under treatment, of them 4,151 were in home isolation, four at isolation centres and 253 at different hospitals. “The condition of 152 patients was stated to be critical, of them 18 were shifted to ventilators,” he added.

Murad Ali Shah said that out of 304 new cases, 244 were detected in Karachi, of them 86 in South, 74 in East, 41 in Korangi, 23 in Central and 10 each in Malir and West.

He said that Hyderabad had 10 cases, Shikarpur five, Ghotki and Shaheed Benazirabad four each, Thatta, Naushahro Feroze and Sujawal three each, Badin two, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Larkana, Matiari, Sukkur and Umerkot one each.

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2020