KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said one more patient of Covid-19 died overnight lifting the death toll to 2,440 while 271 new cases emerged out of 11,042 tested samples raising the tally to 131,675. This he said in a statement issued here from the CM House on Friday.

The chief minister said one more death constituted 1.9 percent death rate. He added that 157 patients recovered, raising the number of patients recovered so far to 126,861 that came to 96 percent recovery rate. The CM said 271 new cases constituted 12 percent overall detection rate.

Murad Ali Shah said currently 2,374 patients were under treatment, of them 2075 in home isolation, six at isolation centers and 293 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 148 patients was stated to be critical, including 17 shifted to ventilators.

The chief minister said out of 271 new cases 203 have been detected from Karachi, including 86 from South, 45 Korangi, 32 East, 17 each from Central and Malir and six from West. Jamshoro has eight cases, Badin and Dadu five each, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Tando Mohammad Khan and Thatta four each, Ghotki, Mirpurkhas and Shaheed Benazirabad three each, Kambar and Tharparkar two each, Larkana, Naushehroferoze, Sujawal and Umerkot one each.

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