Sindh reports 917 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths

KARACHI: The novel COVID-19 has claimed 14 more lives and infected at least 917 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh province.

In his daily coronavirus update, CM Murad Ali Shah said that 14 more people died from the COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 2110 in the province.

The chief minister further said that 11812 samples were tested today, which detected 917 cases of COVID-19, making the total count of the infected people in the province 116,800.

Currently, 11,199 patients are under treatment, of them, 10,445 in-home isolation, 59 at isolation centers, Murad Ali Shah said.

ٹکرز برائے نشر / 24 جولائی 2020

وزیراعلیٰ سندھ سید مراد علی شاہ کا کورونا وائرس کی صورتحال پر بیان

گزشتہ 24 گھنٹوں میں 11812 ٹیسٹ کئے گئے، وزیراعلیٰ سندھ

گزشتہ 24 گھنٹوں میں کورونا وائرس کے 917 نئے کیسز سامنے آئے، وزیراعلیٰ سندھ

— Sindh Chief Minister House (@SindhCMHouse) July 24, 2020

The CM said that 3,280 more COVID-19 patients recuperated today, taking the number of recovered patients to 91,383 in the province.

اس وقت 11199 مریض زیر علاج ہیں، وزیراعلیٰ سندھ

زیر علاج میں 10445 گھروں میں اور 59 مراکز پر ہیں، وزیراعلیٰ سندھ

— Sindh Chief Minister House (@SindhCMHouse) July 24, 2020

Meanwhile, Sindh’s spokesperson Murtaza Wahab on Friday said that over 100,000 patients have recovered from the contagious coronavirus, constituting about 86% of the total patients affected by the virus in the province.

Taking it to Twitter, the PPP senator said: “As of today, more than 100,000 patients have recovered from COVID-19 in Sindh. This is 86% of the total patients in the province.”

As of today more than 100,000 patients have recovered from #COVID19 in #Sindh. This is 86% of the total patients in the province.

— Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui (@murtazawahab1) July 24, 2020

The coronavirus cases in Pakistan are now above 270,400, while the number of casualties has passed 5,700.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has surged to 269,191 in the country. According to National Command and Control Center (NCOC), more than 1,209 cases of coronavirus were reported while 54 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 5,763.

The total recoveries are now above 219,000 as several patients have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 219,783. More than 600 tests were conducted in the past day.