KARACHI: The novel COVID-19 has claimed six more lives and infected at least 221 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh province.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued from the CM House on Saturday said that six more patients of COVID-19 died during the last 24 hours, lifting the death toll to 2549 and 221 new cases emerged when 7515 tests were conducted raising the tally to 140,131.
The CM Murad further said that six more patients lost their lives while struggling against the virus lifting the death toll to 2549 that constituted a 1.8 percent death rate. The CM Sindh said that 7515 samples were tested which diagnosed 221 new cases that came to a 2.9 percent current detection rate.
He added that so far 1,464,598 tests have been conducted which detected 140,131 patients, of the 95 percent or 132,796 patients recovered, including 237 in the last 24 hours.
According to the chief minister, 4786 patients are under treatment, of the 4,491 are in home isolation, six at isolation centers and 289 in different hospitals. The condition of 187 patients is stated to be critical, including 32 shifted to ventilators.
The chief minister said that out of 221 new cases, 59 belonged to Karachi, of them 28 East, 14 South, six Central, five each in Malir, West and Korangi.
Hyderabad has 11 cases, Jamshoro eight, Larkana and Sukkur five each, Ghotki and Mirpurkhas three each, Shaheed Benazirabad Tando Mohammad Khan and Jacobabad two each, Dadu and Umerkot one each.
The number of patients undergoing treatment for coronavirus in Pakistan has dropped to 8,646 and 303,062 people have recovered.
According to the National Command and Operations Center, 671 new cases and 6 deaths of coronavirus have been reported in the country in the last one day.
The total number of deaths from coronavirus in Pakistan has reached 6,558 and so far 318,266 cases have been reported.
The number of coronavirus cases in Islamabad has reached 17,210. 100,484 cases have been reported in Punjab, 38,273 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15,498 in Balochistan, 3,900 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 2,991 in Azad Kashmir.
