Fortunately no death from coronavirus reported on Monday, however, 255 new cases emerged when 8,962 tests were conducted. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, in a statement issued here from CM House, said. CM Shah said that fortunately no death was reported on Monday. He added that till last Sunday the total number of death was 8,091.
He said that 8,962 samples were tested which detected 255 cases that constituted 2.8 percent current detection rate.
He added that so far 8,055,843 tests have been conducted against which 569,117 cases were diagnosed, of them 97 percent or 551,922 patients have recovered, including 126 overnight. The CM said that currently 9,104 patients were under treatment, of them 9,022 were in home isolation, 4 at isolation centers and 78 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 77 patients was stated to be critical, including 4 shifted to ventilators.
According to the statement, out of 255 new cases, 14 have been detected from Karachi, including 7 from East, 4 South and 3 Korangi. Hyderabad has 61, Shaheed Benazirabad 25, Thatta 17, Dadu 16, Nausheroferoze 14, Kashmore 12, Ghotki and Matiari 10 each, Sujawal 9, Jamshoro, Tharparkar and Shikarpur 8 each, Sanghar 7, Jacobabad, Umerkot and Larkana 5 each, Badin, Sukkur, Tando Allahyar, Tando Muhammad Khan and Mipurkhas 4 each.
Sharing vaccination data, the CM said that 48,570,159 vaccinations have been administered up to March 12th, and added during the last 24 hours 81,170 vaccines were inoculated – in total 48,651,329 vaccines have administered which constituted 88.58 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister has urged the people of the province to follow SOPs.
