Nine more patients lose lives to COVID-19 in Sindh

KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that 6699 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours, of which 243 new cases of COVID-19 were detected.

In his daily update on COVID-19, the chief minister said nine patients lost their battle against COVID-19 in the province. He further said a total of 898229 COVID-19 tests had been conducted in the province of which the virus had been confirmed in 126425 persons.

The chief minister said 277 more patients had recovered, taking the total number of recovered patients to 119849, adding that the recovery rate in the province had reached 91 percent.

Currently, 4245 patients were undergoing treatment out of which 3844 patients were at home while seven at isolation centers and 394 at different hospitals, he added. He said that the condition of 247 patients was serious while 34 patients were on ventilators.

CM Sindh said that out of 243 new cases in Sindh, 102 cases are from Karachi He said that 14 new cases are reported in Jamshoro, 9 each in Sujawal and Tando Allahyar and 7 in Mirpurkhas and 6 each in Dadu, Hyderabad and Sukkur.

Murad Ali Shah said that five cases were reported each from Qambar, Naushahro Feroze, Sanghar, Tando Muhammad Khan and Umerkot while 4 in Matiari, 3 in Khairpur, Larkana 2 and 1 in Ghotki.

Pakistan on Monday reported  488 new cases of coronavirus and 7 deaths across the country. According to the National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), the total number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan is 277,214 and 6,175 deaths.

The number of active cases of corona in the country stands at 13,953 while 22,448 corona tests have been done in the last 24 hours. At least 1,308 coronavirus patients are being treated in 735 hospitals across the country and 141 patients are on a ventilator.