In a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, the Sindh province on Tuesday recorded over 500 cases of the virus in a single day with more than half of it reported from Karachi, according to a statement issued. The province reported 521 cases during the last 24 hours, raising the provincial virus tally to 147,295. 379 cases were reported from Karachi alone. Six people also succumbed to the infection during the past 24 hours, bring the provincial death toll to 2,639. 302 patients have recovered from the infection during the single day, bring total recoveries to 139,276. “A total of 5,380 active COVID-19 patients are being treated in the province of which nearly 300 are being treated at the provincial hospitals while two of them are shifted to isolation centres with 191 patients are in critical condition while 27 are on the ventilator. Pakistan has witnessed 1,167 new infections and 14 more deaths due to novel coronavirus during the last 24 hours.
