Six more patients of coronavirus lost their lives during the past 24 hours, lifting the death toll to 2,574 and 225 more cases emerged when 8,429 tests were conducted raising the tally to 141,474.
A statement issued here on Friday said that six more patients died overnight lifting the death toll to 2,574 that constituted 1.8 percent death rate.
8,429 tests were conducted against which 225 new Covid cases were detected that came to 2.6 percent current detection rate. So far 1,519,134 tests have been conducted which diagnosed 141,474 cases, of them 95 percent or 134,494, including 650 overnight.
Currently 4,406 patients were under treatment, of them 4164 in home isolation, five at isolation centers and 237 in different hospitals. The condition of 168 patients was stated to be critical, including 20 shifted to ventilators.
Out of 225 new cases, 164 have been detected from Karachi, including 69 from South, 40 East, 28 Central, 20 Korangi, five Malir and two West.
Hyderabad reported eight cases, Sukkur six, Jamshoro four, Sanghar and Shikarpur three, Dadu, Larkana, Naushehroferoze and Umerkot two each, Badin, Jacobabad, Kambar, Matiari and Mirpurkhas one each.
The chief minister urged the people of the province to observe SOPs strictly.
