Sindh’s Covid-19 death toll cross 2,000-mark, cases soar to 113,553

KARACHI: (HRNW) The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has claimed 26 more lives and infected as many as 546 people during the past 24 hours in Sindh.

In a statement on the daily COVID-19 situation, CM Murad Ali Shah said that 26 more people succumbed to the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 2019

He maintained that 7069 samples were tested today, which detected 546 new cases of COVID-19, taking the total number of cases to 113,553.

Sindh CM said that 897 more COVID-19 patients recuperated today, taking the number of recovered patients to 92,934 in the province.

Currently, 18,600 patients are under treatment, of them 17,824 in home isolation, 64 at isolation centres, the chief minister said.

Murad Ali Shah said that 535 patients are in critical condition in Sindh, of whom 75 are on ventilators.