As many as 15 more people died of coronavirus overnight lifting the death toll to 8,000 showing the ratio of 1.4 percent while 587 new cases were reported among the 10,601 tests conducted in last 24 hours.
This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement on Tuesday.
Shah said 10,601 samples were tested which detected 587 cases that constituted 5.5 percent current detection rate.
He added that so far 7,777,038 tests had been conducted against which 557,658 cases were diagnosed, of them 90.8 percent or 506,700 patients had recovered, including 851 overnight.
The CM said currently 42,958 patients were under treatment; of them 42,681 were in home isolation, 15 at isolation centers and 262 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 236 patients was stated to be critical, including 18 shifted to ventilators.
According to the statement, out of 587 new cases, 255 have been detected from Karachi, including 83 from Korangi, 82 East, 73 South, 10 West 6 Central and 1 Malir. Hyderabad has 105, Jamshoro 33, Shaheed Benazirabad 32, Dadu 26, Nausheroferoze 21, Mirpurkhas 20, Tando Allahyar 17, Thatta 14, Badin, Tando Muhammad Khan and Sanghar 10 each, Matiari and Umerkot 7 each, Kamber and Sujawal 5 each, Larkana and Tharparkar two each.
Sharing vaccination data the CM Sindh said 43,440,886 vaccinations have been administered upto February 13th, and added that during the last 24 hours 905,333 vaccines were inoculated – in total 44,346,219 vaccines have administered which constituted 82.33 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
