Sindh reports 201 new COVID-19 cases, four deaths  

KARACHI: The novel COVID-19 has claimed four more life and infected at least 201 people during the past 24 hours, bringing the number of confirmed infections to 128,877 in Sindh province.

Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah said four patients lost their battle against COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, said a statement issued today regarding the COVID-19 situation in Sindh.

The chief minister said a total of 977056 tests had been conducted in the province so far for the COVID-19, of which the virus had been confirmed in 128877 persons.

He said 90 more patients had recovered, taking the total number of recovered patients to 122551 in the province.

The chief minister said currently 3938 patients were undergoing treatment out of which 3625 patients were at home while seven at isolation centers and 306 were at different hospitals.

Murad Ali Shah said that the condition of 214 patients was serious while 34 patients were on ventilators.

The CM Sindh said that out of 201 new cases in Sindh, 85 cases are from Karachi He said that 39 new cases are reported in Thatta, 9 each in Badin and Jamshoro, 7 each in Tando Allahyar and Tando Muhammad Khan.

Murad Ali Shah said that 5 cases are reported from Umerkot, 2 from Shikarpur, 3 each in Hyderabad, Matiari, Larkana, Sanghar and Shaheed Benazirabad while 1 each from Ghotki, Qambar, Kashmore, Mirpurkhas, Naushahro Feroze and Sukkur.

The novel coronavirus claimed 12  more lives across the country over the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 6, 267.

According to the latest figures released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the deadly virus infected 482 more people during this period, raising the tally of cases to 294,193.

As many as 24,593 samples were tested for the presence of Covid-19, out of which 482 turned out to be positive. The number of active cases of the disease has gone down to 8,987 as 278, 939 patients have recuperated.