KARAC HI: The global epidemic coronavirus has claimed 18 more lives in Sindh and the total death toll has risen to 4,244 on Tuesday.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement said 18 more coronavirus patients died overnight lifting the death toll to 4,244 and 270 new cases reported among 9,504 people tests the last 24 hours.
The chief minister said 9,504 samples were tested which detected 270 cases that constituted 2.8 percent current detection rate. So far 2,892,773 tests have been conducted against which 254,285 cases were diagnosed, of the 93 percent or 236,499 patients have recovered, including 645 overnight, he added.
The CM informed that currently 13,542, patients were under treatment; of them, 13,030 were in home isolation, 13 at isolation centers and 481 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 439 patients was stated to be critical, including 59 shifted to ventilators.
According to the CM, out of 270 new cases, 155 have been detected from Karachi, including 58 from South, 46 East, 20 Central, 17 West and 14 Malir.
Hyderabad has 31, Jamshoro and Umerkot 11 each, Shaheed Benazirabad 10, Jacobabad and Tando Allahyar 8 each, Shikarpur and Sujawal 5 each, Nausheroferoze 3, Ghotki, Matiari, Sanghar and Larkana 2 each, Kamber, Dadu and Badin 1 each.
According to the National Command and Operations Center, the rate of positive cases of corona in Karachi is 10.68 percent. The rate of positive cases in Islamabad is 1.18 percent, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 5.25 percent, in Punjab 5.97 percent, and in Sindh 10.23 percent. In Azad Kashmir, the positive cases of Corona are 5.97 percent, in Balochistan 3.52 percent, and in Gilgit-Baltistan 0.56 percent.
