COVID-19 claims four lives, infects 183 others

The total provincial death toll reaches 7,658

KARACHI:

As many as four more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,658 that constituted 1.6 per cent death rate, while 183 new cases emerged.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Tuesday.

He said that 13,387 samples were tested which detected 183 new cases that constituted 1.4 per cent current detection rate. He added that so far 6,998,037 tests have been conducted against which 478,535 cases were diagnosed, of them 97.4 per cent or 466,281 patients have recovered, including 136 overnight. The CM said that currently 4,596 patients were under treatment, of them 4,425 were in home isolation, 28 at isolation centres and 143 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 134 patients was stated to be critical, including 15 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 183 new cases, 56 have been detected from Karachi, including 30 from East, 23 South, two in district Central and one in Malir.

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Tando Muhammad Khan reported 15 cases, Hyderabad 13, Nausheroferoze, Shaheed Benazirabad and Thatta 11 each, Tando Allahyar 10, Sujawal 9, Jamshoro 8, Larkana 6, Shikarpur and Tharparkar 4 each, Badin, Umerkot, Sanghar, Khairpur, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas and Jacobabad 3 each and Ghotki reported 2 cases. Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 27,169,604 vaccinations have been administered upto December 19th, and added that during the last 24 hours 162,808 vaccines were inoculated - in total 27,332,412 vaccines have administered which constituted 49.72 per cent of the vaccine eligible population.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2021.