COVID-19 claims two more patients, infects 144 others

KARACHI (HRNW)  As many as two more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,636 and 144 new cases emerged when 11,765 tests were conducted.
This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Saturday. He added that two more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 7,636 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.
Mr. Shah said that 11,765 samples were tested which detected 144 cases that constituted 1.2 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 6,876,911 tests have been conducted against which 476,780 cases were diagnosed, of them 97.6 percent or 465,634 patients have recovered, including 368 overnight.
The CM said that currently 3,510 patients were under treatment, of them 3,360 were in home isolation, 22 at isolation centers and 128 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 125 patients was stated to be critical, including 8 shifted to ventilators.
According to the statement, out of 144 new cases, 33 have been detected from Karachi, including 24 from East, 5 South, 2 Central and 5 West each. Hyderabad has 14, Matiari and Shaheed Benazirabad 12 each, Thatta 11, Jamshoro and Mirpurkhas 10 each, Tando Allahyar 7, Sukkur 5, Sanghar, Tharparkar and Shikarpur 4 each, Badin, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Umerkot, Tando Muhammad Khan and Ghotki 3 each.
Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 25,544,514 vaccinations have been administered upto December 9th, and added during the last 24 hours 163,057 vaccines were inoculated – in total 25,707,571 vaccines have administered which constituted 47.11 percent of the vaccine eligible population.
The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.