KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that 58 more coronavirus patients, highest ever, died overnight lifting the death toll 3,222 and 1,520 new cases emerged when 10,289 samples were tested raising the tally to 198,482. In a statement issued here from CM House, he said that unfortunately 58 more patients died overnight lifting the death toll to 3,222 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.

Shah said 10,289 samples were tested which diagnosed 1,520 cases that constituted 14.8 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 2,166,999 tests had been conducted against which 198,482 cases were detected, of them 85 percent or 169,385 patients had recovered, including 1,176 overnight.

The CM said currently 25,875 patients were under treatment; of them 24,965 were in home isolation, 16 at isolation centres and 894 in different hospitals, adding the condition of 801 patients was stated to be critical, of them 83 had been shifted to ventilators. According to the statement, out of 1,520 new cases, 1,273 have been detected from Karachi, including 422 from East, 343 South, 220 Central, 145 Korangi, 78 Malir and 65 West. Hyderabad and Matiari have 27 each, Jamshoro 14, Thatta 10, Sukkur seven, Tando Allahyar six, Umerkot and dadu four each, Kashmore, Larkana and Naushehroferoze two each, Badin, Kambar, Khairpur, Sanghar, Tando Mohammad Khan and Tharparkar one each.

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