KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday informed that eight patients succumbed to the virus, taking the death toll to 130, while 214 more patients had recovered from coronavirus and returned to their homes.
“This is the first time that the recovery ratio seems to be a little encouraging but local spread cases are still on the rise,” he said in a statement issued from the CM House.
Disclosing the daily bulletin of coronavirus updates, the chief minister said that 3,032 tests were conducted against which 363 new cases, or 11.9 per cent, were diagnosed as positive.
“The health department has tested 64,052 samples so far and detected 7,465 cases which constitute 11.7 per cent cases of the total tests,” he added.
The chief minister said that 5,780 patients were under treatment, including 4,638 who are in home isolation, 615 at isolation centres and 527 at different hospitals while 17 of the 86 critical patients were on ventilators.
Sharing the data of Karachi, Shah said that out of 363 cases, 231 belonged to the city. He added that 67 cases had been detected in district East, 55 South, 45 Central, 28 West, 21 Korangi and 15 Malir.
He said that Larkana and Ghotki had produced more cases of local transmission. He disclosed that Larkana had 30 cases, Ghotki 21, Hyderabad 13, Shaheed Benazirabad 13, Khairpur 10, Jacobabad nine, Sukkur eight, Matiari 2 and Dadu one.
The chief minister said that the local spread was quite worrisome.
“We have tried to contain it, but people do not care, they violate SOPs and ignore social distancing,” he lamented, concluding that the epidemic could only be defeated when everyone would take the responsibility of securing himself and his family.
