KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday said that 27 patients of Covid-19 — the highest number during the last one month — died overnight and 1,292 new cases emerged when 9,752 samples were tested.

In a statement issued here from CM House, he said that from Nov 1 to Dec 1, the deaths of 27 patients in a day was the highest during the ongoing second wave of the pandemic and added “may God have mercy on our people.”

He added that so far 1,994,516 tests had been conducted against which 175,642 cases were detected, of them 87 per cent or 153,642 patients recovered, including 1,043 overnight.

The CM said that currently 19,038 patients were under treatment, of them 18,218 were in home isolation, 12 at isolation centres and 808 at different hospitals.

He added that the condition of 716 patients was stated to be critical, including 72 shifted to ventilators.

Murad Ali Shah said that out of 1,292 new cases, 989 were detected in Karachi, including 340 in East, 243 in South, 213 in Central, 104 in Malir, 63 in Korangi and 26 in West.

He added that Hyderabad had 76 new cases, Mirpurkhas 36, Jamshoro 31, Matiari 21, Badin 18, Shaheed Benazirabad 14, Ghotki and Thatta 11 each, Sukkur nine, Tando Allahyar five, Jacobabad six, Larkana and Umerkot three each, Shikarpur two, Dadu, Khairpur, Sanghar and Sujawal one each.

Published in Dawn, December 2nd, 2020