KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister has said that coronavirus has claimed four more lives lifting the death toll 2,455 and 307 new cases emerged when 13,787 samples were tested raising the tally to 133,125. In a statement issued here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said that four more patients died due to coronavirus lifting the death toll to 2,455 that constituted 1.8 percent death rate. He added that 178 more patients recovered overnight.

The patients recovered so far have reached 127991 that constituted 96 percent recovery rate. Shah said that 1378 tests were conducted against which 307 new cases emerged constituting two percent current detection rate. He added that so far 1186,005 tests have been conducted which diagnosed 133,125 cases all over Sindh that came to 11 percent overall detection rate.

According to the CM currently 2,679 patients are under treatment, of them 2400 in home isolation, four at isolation centres and 275 at different hospitals. The condition of 173 patients is stated to be critical, including 23 shifted to ventilators. Murad Ali Shah said that out of 307 new cases 163 have been detected from Karachi.

They include 58 East, 52 South, 22 Korangi, 18 Central, eight Malir and five West. He added that Jamshoro has 28 cases, Matiari 18, Khairpur 14, Dadu 10, Hyderabad nine, Larkana four, Kambar, Sukkur and Sujawal three each, Mirpurkhas, Tando Mohamamd Khan and Shaheed Benazirabad two each, Naushehroferoze, Kashmore, Thatta and Umerkot one each.The chief minister urged people to follow the SOP issued by the government.

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