Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said in his video message on Wednesday that in terms of local spread of COVID-19 Karachi was worst affected.
He added that during the last 24 hours 320 new cases have been diagnosed in the province, out of which 308 were of local spread. “It means the local spread turns to be 15.2 percent of the diagnosed cases,” he said.He said that with new three the deaths, the death toll has reached to 69 which was 2 percent of the total patients. He added that at present 2589 patients were under treatment, of them 1579 were in home isolation, 613 at isolation Center and 379 in different hospitals.
“Today 50 patients recovered and returned to their homes – the recovery percentage of the corona patients comes to 69 percent,” he said.The chief minister said that with the addition to 320 new of cases of Sindh, the tally has risen to 10,069 in the country. “This is not an ordinary situation and we will have to handle it with extra care and attention,” he said. Disclosing situation in Karachi, the chief minister said that the worst affected was district South where 578 cases, including 79 new cases have been detected. Almost all the cases were of local spread.In East out of 468 cases, 20 are of Tableeghi Jamaat members and 448 of local spread, the chief minister said and added 42 new cases had emerged on Wednesday.
