Staff Reporter
The novel coronavirus has claimed 10 more lives and infected at least 303 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh, it was learnton Sunday.
A statement on the daily Covid-19 situation in the province said that ten more people died from the coronavirus during past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 2,272.
8,288 samples were tested on Sunday, which detected 303 cases of COVID-19, making the total count of the infected people in the province 123,849.
He added that 5,836 patients were currently under treatment.
“Currently, 5836 patients are under treatment, of them 370 are in critical condition, and 45 on ventilators,” he added.
It is pertinent to mention here that a total of 634 new coronavirus cases and eight associated deaths were reported across the country over the last 24 hours, taking the national tally of infections to 284,121 and fatalities to 6,082.
According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), as many as 23,390 samples were tested for Covid-19 during the previous 24 hours, out of which 634 turned out to be positive.
Meanwhile, The deceased policeman, head constable Hassan Raza, was serving at a wireless operator at Gulberg Citizens Police Liasion Committee at the West DIG’s office. According to his son, he experienced a high fever on May 27, following which he was tested for the virus and was confirmed as having it.
He further shared that his father had initially been isolated at his residence, but when his health deteriorated, he was first shifted to Dow University of Health and Sciences Ojha Campus and then to Ziauddin Hospital due to the lack of availability of hospital beds.
