Five more patients of Coronavirus died lifting the death toll in Sindh to 2,517 and 316 infected when 12,990 samples were tested raising the tally to 137,783. A statement issued here on Friday said that five more patients lost their lives while struggling against Covid-19 lifting the death toll to 2,517 that constituted 1.8 percent. 12,990 samples were tested against which 316 new cases emerged that came to 2.4 percent current detection rate. So far 1,387,758 tests have been conducted which detected 10 percent or 137,783 cases against which 95 percent patients or 130,730 patients recovered, including 220 overnight. Currently 4,536 patients were under treatment, of them 4,250 in home isolation, seven at isolation centers and 270 at different hospitals. The condition of 200 patients was stated to be critical, including 37 shifted to ventilators. Out of 361 new cases, 223 have been detected from Karachi. They include 108 from East, 56 South, 32 Central, 23 Malir, seven West and six Korangi. He added that Hyderabad has nine cases, Badin eight, Dadu and Kambar five each, Jamshoro four, Larkana three, Ghotki, Matiari and Tando Mohammad Khan two each, Mirpur, Naushehroferoze, Sukkur, Tando Allahyar and Thatta one.
