No Covid death during last 24 hours

77 patients recover from the infection overnight

KARACHI:

Not a single Covid-19 related death has been reported over the last 24 hours. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Sunday.

He added that no casualty was reported today and death toll of patients remained at 7,603, thus forming a 1.6 per cent death rate. Shah said 2,475 samples were tested and 47 cases detected. This translated to a current detection rate of 1.9 per cent.

He added that so far, 6,576,808 tests have been conducted against which 472,159 cases were diagnosed. Of the total, 95.8 percent or 452,099 patients recovered, including 77 overnight. The CM said that currently, 12,457 patients were under treatment.

Of them, 12,230 were in home isolation, 204 at different hospitals and 23 patients in isolation centres. He added that the condition of 200 patients was stated to be critical, including 12 who were shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 47 new cases, 38 have been detected from Karachi. Explaining the statistics of districts wise 17 in Karachi East, Karachi South 12, Karachi Central 6, Karachi West and Khairpur 2 each, Malir, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Jamshoro, Noushehro Feroze, Tando Mohammad Khan, Ghotki and Kashmore one each new covid-19 case reported.

CM Syed Murad Ali Shah urged people to abide by the SOPs issued by the government