Sindh reports 252 COVID-19 cases, two deaths

KARACHI: The novel COVID-19 has claimed two more lives and infected at least 361 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh province.

As per details, 252 new Covid-19 cases were emerged raising the tally to 138,593 and two more patients lost their lives lifting the tally to 2523.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement has said that 7993 tests were conducted against which 252 new cases emerged that constituted 3.1 percent current detection rate.

The chief minister said that so far 1,416,482 samples have been tested against which 138,593 cases were detected all over Sindh that came to a 10 percent overall detection rate.

He said that two more patients lost their lives while fighting against the deadly virus lifting the death toll to 2,523 that constituted a 1.8 percent death rate.

The number of patients cured so far has reached 131,462 that constituted a 95 percent recovery rate. The CM said that currently, 4608 patients were under treatment, including 4,327 in-home isolation, six at isolation centers, and 275 at different hospitals.

The condition of 188 patients was stated to be critical, including 33 have been shifted to ventilators, he added.

According to CM Murad, out of 252 new cases 166 have been detected from Karachi, of them 68 from East, 37 from South, 28 Central, 18 Korangi, nine Malir and six West.

Hyderabad has 14 cases, Naushahro Feroze five, Tando Allahayar four, Jamshoro and Badin three each, Mirpurkhas, Shaheed Benazir Abad and Tando Mohammad Khan two each, and Larkana one case.

During the last 24 hours, 375 coronavirus patients recovered and the total number of cured people was 298,968. The number of virus active cases in the country is 9,135.

The number of coronavirus cases in Islamabad has reached 16,766. 99,812 cases have been reported in Punjab, 37,973 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15,371 in Balochistan, 3,828 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 2,816 in Azad Kashmir.