KARACHI: As many as 14 more patients of Covid-19 lost their lives overnight lifting the death toll to 2,911 while 1,389 new cases emerged when 9,072 samples were tested raising the tally to 171,595.

This was stated by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here from CM House on Saturday.

He said that the current death rate was 1.7 per cent and the detection rate was 15.3pc, which was the highest during the second wave.

He added that so far 1,961,855 tests had been conducted across the province against which 171,595 cases were diagnosed, of them 88pc or 150,765 patients have recovered, including 1,650 overnight.

The CM said that currently 17,919 patients were under treatment, of them 17,141 were in home isolation, 13 at isolation centres and 765 at different hospitals.

Published in Dawn, November 29th, 2020