Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said that 12 more patients of Covid-19 died overnight lifting the death toll to 3,594 and 1004 new cases emerged when 13,886 tests were conducted raising the tally to 217,636. This he said in a statement issued here from CM House on Saturday. He added that 12 more patients of Covid-19 died overnight lifting the death toll to 3,594 that constituted 1.7 percent death rate. The CM said that 13,886 samples were tested which diagnosed 1004 cases constituting 7.2 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 2,386,310 tests have been conducted against which 217,636 cases were detected, of them 90.3 percent or 196,677 have recovered, including 543 overnight. Mr Shah said that currently 17,365 patients were under treatment, of them 16,548 were in home isolation, 12 at isolation centers and 805 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 726 patients was stated to be critical, including 77 shifted to ventilators. Murad Ali Shah said that out of 1,004 new cases, 843 have been detected from Karachi, including 306 from South, 266 East, 142 Central, 64 Malir, 56 Korangi and nine West. He added that Hyderabad has 35 cases, Badin 13, Khairpur 10, Matiari and Sanghar eight each, Ghotki, Jacobabad and Shikarpur six each, TandoAllahyar four, Naushehroferoze three, ShaheedBenazirabad two and Umerkot one.The CM urged people of Sindh to follow SOP.
