Sindh reports 34 more deaths, 1,452 COVID-19 cases

KARACHI: The novel COVID-19 has claimed 34 more lives and infected 1,452 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh.

In a statement on the COVID-19 situation, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said that 34 more people succumbed to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 1747.

He said that 10,815 samples were tested today, which detected 1,452 new cases of COVID-19. The chief minister maintained that so far 564,491 tests had been conducted in the province.

Giving the details of patients, the CM said currently 41,634 patients are under treatment, of them 39,967 in-home isolation, 402 at isolation centers.

He added that currently, 743 patients were in critical condition, of them 109 had been shifted to ventilators. Sindh CM said that 1,274 more COVID-19 patients recuperated today.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has surged to 246,351 in Pakistan, while the death toll stands at 5,123.

According to the National Command and Control Center (NCOC), more than 3,359 cases of coronavirus were reported while 65 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours.

As many as 149,092 patients have recovered from the disease, while the country is still witnessing a consistent rise in the COVID-19 cases.

Around 674 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) surfaced in Punjab in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infections thus far reported in the province to 85,261.

Pakistan on Friday edged past Italy to become the 11th worst-hit country by the COVID-19 pandemic, powered by a surge in new infections across the country.