KARACHI: As many as nine more patients of coronavirus lost their lives overnight and 904 new cases emerged when 12,430 samples were tested.

In a statement issued here from CM House on Tuesday, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 2,760 people had so far died due to Covid-19 constituting 1.8 per cent death rate.

Murad Ali Shah, who went into self-isolation after being diagnosed Covid-19 positive, said that so far 1,832,857 tests had been conducted, against which 157,432 cases were detected.

He said that currently 11,020 patients were under treatment, of them 10,505 were in home isolation, five at isolation centres and 510 in different hospitals. “The condition of 422 patients was stated to be critical, of them 40 shifted to ventilators,” he added.

According to the CM, out of 904 new patients, 610 were detected in Karachi.

He said that Hyderabad had 86 cases, Shikarpur 26, Larkana 20, Shaheed Benazirabad 19, Kashmore 18, Jacobabad and Mirpurkhas 10 each, Umerkot nine, Badin eight, Ghotki, Naushahro Feroze and Tando Allahyar seven each, Dadu four, Khairpur and Thatta three each, Jamshoro, Sanghar and Sukkur two each, Qambar and Matiari one each.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2020