RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Covid-19 claimed three more lives lifting the death toll to 2439 and infected 289 when 13049 samples were tested raising the tally to 131,404. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Thursday.

Shah said that coronavirus claimed three more lives lifting the death toll to 2439 that constituted 1.9 percent death rate. He added that 101 more patients recovered, raising the tally of the patients recovered so far to 126,704 that constituted 96 percent recovery rate.

The CM said that 289 patients were detected when 13049 tests were conducted that constituted two percent current detection rate. So far 1,095,416 samples have been tested against which 131,404 patients were diagnosed all over Sindh that came to 12 percent overall detection rate.

According to Murad Ali Shah currently 2261 patients are under treatment, of them 1956 in home isolation, six at isolation centres and 299 at different hospitals. The condition of 146 patients is stated to be critical, including 14 shifted to ventilators.