Sindh ChiefMinister Murad Ali Shah has said that 22 more patients of Coronavirus diedovernight lifting the death toll 3,582 and 953 new cases emerged when 11,771samples were tested. In a statement issued here fromCM House on Friday, he said that 22 more patients of COVID-19 died overnight liftingthe death toll to 3,582 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate. Shah said that 11,771 sampleswere tested which diagnosed 953 cases that constituted eight percent currentdetection rate. He added that so far 2,372,424 tests have been conductedagainst which 216,632 cases were detected, of them 90.5 percent or 196,134 have recovered, including 714 overnight.The CM said that currently 16,916patients were under treatment, of them 16,131 were in home isolation, eleven atisolation centers and 774 at different hospitals. He added that the conditionof 701 patients was stated to be critical, including 73 shifted to ventilators.Accordingto the statement out of 953 new cases, 792 have been detected from Karachi,including 276 from South, 217 East, 126 Korangi, 80 Central, 50 West and 43Malir. Hyderabad has 34 cases, Mirpurkhas and ShaheedBenazirabad 14 each,Sujawal 12, TandoAllahyar and Jamshoro eight each, Larkana seven, kambar andKhairpur six each, Naushehroferoze, Tando Mohammad Khan and Thatta four each,Badin, Jacobabad and Umerkot three each. He added that so far 2,372,424 tests have been conductedagainst which 216,632 cases were detected, of them 90.5 percent or 196,134 have recovered, including 714 overnight.
