KARACHI: Sindh today (Sunday) reported as many as 961 new infections of the novel coronavirus and 17 more fatalities in the past 24 hours, according to a statement issued by the province’s chief minister Murad Ali Shah.
In the statement, CM Murad informed that seventeen more patients lost their lives overnight lifting the death toll to 3,611 that constituted a 1.7 percent death rate, while 11473 samples were tested which diagnosed 961 cases that constituted 8.4 percent current detection rate.
He added that so far 2,397,783 tests have been conducted against which 218,597 cases were detected, of the 90.3 percent or 197,430 patients have recovered, including 753 overnight.
CM Murad said that currently, 17,556 patients were under treatment, of them 16756 were in home isolation, 12 at isolation centers, and 788 in different hospitals. He added that the condition of 704 patients was stated to be critical, including 74 shifted to ventilators.
According to the statement, out of 961 new cases, 791 have been detected from Karachi, including 256 from South, 251 East, 94 Korangi, 92 Central, Malir and West 49 each. The chief minister urged the people of the province to follow SOPs.
