KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Saturday that 20 more patients of Covid-19 died in the previous 24 hours and 1,569 new cases of the coronavirus emerged when 13,864 tests were conducted, raising the tally to 182,473.

In a statement issued here from Chief Minister House, he said the death of 20 more patients lifted the death toll to 3,011, constituting a 1.7 per cent death rate.

He added that so far 2,051,357 tests had been conducted in the province against which 182,473 cases were detected; of them 87pc, or 158,567 patients, recovered, including 1,561 overnight.

The CM said that currently 20,895 patients were under treatment; of them 20,042 were in home isolation, 13 at isolation centres and 840 in different hospitals.

He added that the condition of 744 patients was stated to be critical, including 82 shifted to ventilators.

According to the chief minister, out of 1,569 new cases, 1,289 were detected in Karachi, including 473 in East, 396 in South, 161 in Central, 136 in Korangi, 70 in Malir and 53 in West district.

He said Hyderabad had 55 cases, Tando Mohammad Khan 22, Sanghar 17, Jamshoro 13, Shaheed Benazirabad and Thatta 12 each, Ghotki and Mirpurkhas 11 each, Sukkur and Jacobabad nine each, Matiari eight, Sujawal and Tando Allahyar seven each, Larkana six, Shikarpur and Umerkot four each, Qambar three cases.

Published in Dawn, December 6th, 2020