KARACHI: The novel COVID-19 has claimed six more lives and infected at least 222 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh province.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday announced that as many as 222 fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported in the province during the past 24-hours.
He said that more than half of the COVID-19 cases in the province, that is 136, were reported from Karachi during the duration.
“We overall performed 8,448 COVID-19 tests in the province during the past 24 hours,” he said as the death toll from the virus during the period stood at six in the province.
On Monday, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had urged citizens to observe strict compliance of standard operating procedures (SOPs) as the coronavirus positivity rate has risen above four percent in Karachi in the last five days.
Briefing National Coordination Committee (NCC) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Monday, the chief minister said that Sindh has conducted 14,64,598 Covid-19 tests so far and the province conducting around 20,000 tests on a daily basis.
At least eight more people have lost their lives in Pakistan due to the coronavirus, taking the total death toll to 6,588.
According to the National Command and Operations Center, 531 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 319,848.
In Pakistan, 34,609 patients have recovered from the coronavirus and the number of patients under treatment has dropped to 8,651. The coronavirus has killed 2,264 people in Punjab.
The death toll in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has risen to 1,264, in Islamabad 189, in Balochistan 146, in Gilgit-Baltistan 91 and in Azad Kashmir 78.
