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KARACHI: Coronavirus claimed the lives of 12 more critical patients while 1423 people tested positive for the virus during the last 24 hours in Pakistan.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that COVID-19 has claimed 12 more lives lifting the death toll to 2,897 and 1423 new cases emerged when 12,226 samples were tested.

He said that 12 more patients died overnight lifting the death toll to 2,897 that constituted a 1.8 percent death rate. Shah said that 12,226 samples were tested which diagnosed 1423 cases that came to an 11.6 percent current detection rate which was dangerous.

So far 1,952,783 tests have been conducted against which 170,206 cases have been diagnosed, of them 88 percent or 149,115 patients have recovered, including 802 overnight, he added.

The CM Sindh said that currently, 18,194 patients were under treatment, of them 17,422 were in home isolation, 13 at isolation centers and 759 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 685 patients was stated to be critical, including 50 shifted to ventilators.

Syed Murad Ali Shah said that out of 1423 new cases 1157 have been detected from Karachi, including 410 from East, 389 South, 148 Central, 131 Malir, 40 Korangi and 39 West.

He added that Hyderabad has 68 cases, Badin 37, Tando Allahyar 19, Shaheed Benazirabad 14, Umerkot nine, Thatta eight, Naushehroferoze seven, Sukkur six, Jamshoro five, Khairpur and dadu four each, Larkana and Ghotki three each, Tando Mohammad Khan two, Jacobabad, Mirpurkhas and Sanghar one each.

Meanwhile, Pakistan recorded 3,313 new COVID-19 cases and 54 deaths due to the virus in the last 24 hours, making it the third consecutive day that over three thousand cases have been reported.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the total number of cases now currently stands at 389,311, whereas there are 45,533 active cases.

In the past 24 hours, 54 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 7,897. A further 2,112 patients are in critical condition while 1,489 patients have recovered from the virus.

A total of 43,214 tests were conducted across the country during this period. 335,881 people have recovered from the deadly disease while 5,386,916 samples have been tested so far.