KARACHI: Three more patients of Covid-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 2,463 and 296 new cases emerged out of 15,211 tested samples, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah confirmed in a statement issued here from the CM House on Monday.

The chief minister said three more deaths constituted the death rate to 1.8 percent. He added that 87 patients recovered overnight and the number of patients recovered has reached 128,494 so far that came to 96 percent recovery rate.

The CM said 296 new cases constituted 1.96 percent current detection rate. So far 1,243,268 tests have been conducted which detected 134243 cases that came to 11 percent overall detection rate.

According to the CM, currently 3286 patients are under treatment, of them 2930 in home isolation, five at isolation centers and 351 at different hospitals. The condition of 175 patients is stated to be critical, including 20 shifted to ventilators.

Murad Ali Shah said out of 296 new cases, 143 have been detected from Karachi, including 50 from East, 42 Central, 26 South, 11 Malir, eight West and six Korangi. He added that Badin has 25 cases, Hyderabad five, Matiari four, Shikarpur three, Sanghar, Shaheed Benazirabad, and Umerkot two each, Dadu, Jacobabad, Larkana and Sukkur one each.

The chief minister urged people of Sindh to follow SOP, otherwise the government would not be able to contain the pandemic.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020