The Covid–19 has started hitting new highs again by claiming nine lives overnight lifting the death toll to 2,620 and 473 new cases emerged when 11,504 samples were tested raising the tally to 145,238.
A statement issued here on Thursday said that on April 9, 2020 we had nine deaths stemming from coronavirus and on Thursday after over five months again we have nine deaths lifting the death toll to 2,620 that constituted 1.8 percent death rate. 11,504 samples were tested against which 473 new cases were diagnosed that constituted 4.1 percent current detection rate. Ther detection rate has started increasing from 2 percent to over 3 percent.
So far 1,628,450 tests have been conducted which detected 145,238 cases, of them 95 percent or 138,346 patients have recovered. Currently 4,272 patients were under treatment, of them 4,044 were in home isolation, one at isolation centers and 227 in different hospitals. The condition of 165 patients was stated to be critical, including 28 shifted to ventilators. Out of 473 new, 293 have been detected from Karachi, including 109 from East, 99 South, 32 Central, 21 Malir, 17 Korangi, and 15 from West.
