KARACHI: As many as 1496 new cases were emerged when 10,027 samples were tested raising the tally to 90,721 while 22 more patients lost their lives lifting the death toll to 1437.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah disclosed this in a statement issued here from CM House on Friday.

According to the CM, 10,027 samples were tested which detected 1496 cases constituting 15 percent result. The government has tested 481,050 samples which detected 90,721 cases all over Sindh, of them 50,908 have recovered, including 982 overnight. "The recovery rate of coronavirus patients in Sindh stands at 56 Percent," Shah said.

The statement said 22 more patients of Covid-19 died lifting the death toll to 1459 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.

The chief minister said that at present 38,354 patients were under treatment, of them 36,452 in home isolation, 298 at Isolation Centres and 1604 at different hospitals. He added that out of 1604 hospitalised patients, 653 were in critical condition, 104 on ventilators while 847 stated to be stable.

The CM said that out of 1496 new cases of coronavirus, Karachi has 750 cases, including 217 in district East, South 182, Central 129, Malir 82, Korangi 79 and West 61. He added that Sukkur has 44 new cases, Sanghar 44, Badin 41, Ghotki 40, Khairpur 29, Thatta 26, Kambar 22, Shaheed Benazirabad 17, Jamshoro and Shikarpur 11 each, Kashmore seven, Larkana six, Dadu and Naushehroferoze five each and Jacobabad four.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020