Coronavirus cases have witnessed an increase in the Sindh province after 429 fresh cases have been reported during the past 24 hours, it was learnt on Tuesday.The province has reported just over 270 virus cases a day before. A daily briefing on the COVID-19 situation said that the fresh cases were reported after 10,050 tests performed during the duration.So far reported 124,556 cases after performing 844,705 cases as eight more people died from the coronavirus in the province in last 24 hours, raising the overall death tally to 2290. As many as 1,653 people recovered from the virus in the province during the past 24 hours, three times more than the fresh cases, as overall recoveries in the province peaked to 117,637. Currently there are 4,629 active patients in the province with 4,239 of themself-isolating at their homes, seven receiving treatment at isolation centres while 383 are getting medical care in separate hospitals. 248 patients are said to be in a critical condition with 38 others put on the ventilator. A total of 531 new coronavirus cases and fifteen associated deaths were reported across the country over the last 24 hours, taking the national tally of infections to 285,191 and fatalities to 6,112. Of the total Covid-19 patients, 261,246 have recuperated from the disease so far as the number of active cases stands at 17,883. Out of 1,859 ventilators earmarked for critically-ill patients, only 143 are in use.
