COVID-19 claims six more lives in Sindh

Karachi, October 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said Saturday that six more patients of coronavirus died overnight, raising the death toll from the virus disease to 2,549 across Sindh. In a statement issued here from the CM House, the CM said that the virus death ratio in Sindh had reached 1.8 percent. Shah said that 7,515 samples were tested which diagnosed 221 new virus cases that came to 2.9 percent current detection rate.

The chief minister stated that so far, 1,464,598 tests had been conducted which detected 140,131 patients, of them 95 percent or 132,796 patients recovered, including 237 overnight. According to the statement, 4786 patients are under treatment, of them 4,491 are in home isolation, six at isolation centers and 289 at different hospitals. The condition of 187 patients was stated to be critical, including 32 shifted to ventilators.

The chief minister said that out of 221 new cases, 59 belonged to Karachi, of them 28 from East, 14 South, six Central, five each in Malir, West and Korangi. Hyderabad has 11 cases, Jamshoro eight, Larkana and Sukkur five each, Ghotki and Mirpurkhas three each, Shaheed Benazirabad Tando Mohammad Khan and Jacobabad two each, Dadu and Umerkot one each.

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