The novel coronavirus has claimed 20 more lives and infected at least 498 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh. A statement on the COVID-19 situation said on Thursday that 20 more people died from the COVID-19 in past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 2209. 10,942 samples were tested in 24 hours, which detected 498 cases of COVID-19, making the total count of the infected people in the province 120,896. Currently, 8.454 patients are under treatment. “The province currently has 399 critically ill COVID-19 patients,” the chief minister said with over 67 of them put on ventilators. 689 more COVID-19 patients recuperated, taking the number of recovered patients to 110,233 in the province. It is pertinent to mention here that the country reported 1,114 new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally of cases to 277,402.
