KARACHI: As many as 10 more patients of Covid-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 2307 and 360 new cases emerged when 10754 samples were tested raising the tally to 125,289. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Thursday.

The CM said that 10 more patients died overnight lifting the death toll to 2,307 that constituted 1.8 percent death rate. He added that 360 new cases emerged when 10,754 tests were conducted that constituted three percent current detection rate. So far 863,329 tests have been conducted which detected 14.5 percent or 125,289 cases, of them 95 percent patients or 118,924 have recovered, including 952 overnight.

According to CM Shah, currently 4,058 patients are under treatment, of them 3,666 in home isolation, eight at Isolation Centres and 384 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 242 patients was stated to be critical, including 40 have been shifted to ventilators.

Shah said that out of 360 new cases, 185 have been detected from Karachi. They include District South 70, East 52, Korangi 21, Central 17, Malir 14 and West 11. He added that Badin has 23 new cases, Dadu and Ghotki 12 each, Shikarpur and Thatta 10 each, Jamshoro, Khairpur, Mirpurkhas and Sanghar eight each, Larkana, Hyderabad and Umerkot seven each, Kashmore, Naushehrofe-roze and Sujawal three each, Jacobabad and Shaheed Benazirabad two each and Tando Mohammad Khan one.

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