KARACHI: As many as 188 new cases of Covid-19 emerged out of 8,999 tested samples lifting the tally to 130,671 while one patient lost his life overnight lifting the death toll to 2,432.
This was stated by the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here on Sunday.
The chief minister said new 188 cases constituted two percent current detection rate.
So far 1,055,050 samples have been tested which diagnosed 130,671 cases that came to 12 percent overall detection rate.
The CM said one more patient's death constituted 1.9 percent death rate.
He added that currently 2,035 patients were under treatment, of them 1700 in home isolation, seven at Isolation Centers and 328 in different hospitals. According to the CM, condition of 154 patients is critical, of them 15 have been shifted to ventilators.
Overnight 49 patients recovered. The number of patients recovered so far has reached 126,213 that constituted 97 percent recovery rate. Murad Ali Shah sharing district-wise data said, out of 188 new cases, 115 belonged to Karachi.
They include 60 South, 24 East, 13 Korangi, eight Central, six west, and four Malir. He added that Thatta has 12 cases, Badin nine, Khairpur eight, Hyderabad and Tando Mohammad Khan four each, Kashmore, Tando Allahyar three each, Sukkur, Kambar, Larkana , Sanghar and Ghotki two each, Ghotki, Jacobabad, Jamshoro, Matiari, Shaheed Benazirabad and Shikarpur one each. The CM urged people of Sindh to observe SOPs, use masks while going out and wash hands or use sanitizer and avoid handshaking.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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