KARACHI: As many as two more patients of Covid-19 died lifting the death toll to 2,633 and 443 new cases emerged when 9,784 samples were tested raising the tally to 146,774.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here from CM House.

Shah said that two more patients of Covid-19 lost their lives while struggling against the virus lifting the death toll to 2,633 that constituted 1.8 percent death rate.

He said that 9,784 samples were tested which detected 443 new cases that constituted 4.5 percent positive cases. So far 1,664,547 tests have been conducted which diagnosed 146,774 cases, of them 95 percent or 138,974 patients have recovered, including 195 overnight.

The CM said that currently 5,167 patients were under treatment, of them 4,906 were in home isolation, one at isolation center and 260 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 191 patients was stated to be critical, including 27 shifted to ventilators.

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