KARACHI: Announcing that the coronavirus fatality rate has significantly decreased across the province, the Sindh government on Tuesday declared its recovery rate the highest in Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference, the spokesperson for Sindh government, Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that Sindh had conducted the most number of tests in the country. “To date, we have conducted over 449,900 tests in the province,” he revealed.
“Unlike other provinces, Sindh is also doing contact tracing under which we have conducted 13,574 tests per million, whereas, Punjab conducted just 5,964 tests per million,” he added.
Sindh has reported 551 coronavirus cases and 22 deaths during the past 24 hours, according to Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah.
In a statement issued earlier in the day, Shah said 6,676 tests were carried out during this period. With the new cases, the provincial total has risen to 114,104 while the death toll has risen to 2,041. He added that 17,766 patients were currently under treatment.
Speaking about recoveries in the province, Murtaza said the numbers reflected the Sindh government’s efficient strategy to deal with the pandemic.
“In Sindh 92,934 recoveries have been reported with our recovery rate standing at 82%, whereas in Punjab there are 66,021 recovered patients which are 66% of the total cases and in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the recovery rate is 79% with 25,367 people recovered,” he noted.
About the death rate, Murtaza said Sindh has reported 2,019 deaths whereas, Punjab has reported 2,090 deaths and KP 1,147 deaths.
Giving a breakdown of coronavirus infections according to age in Sindh, Wahab said there were 3,279 patients under treatment between the ages of 1 and 10; 8,690 between the ages of 11 and 20; 2,702 between the ages of 31 and 40; 19,290 between the ages of 41 and 50; 14,906 between the ages of 51 and 60; and 6,979 between the ages of 61 and 70.
He added there were 249 patients under treatment between the ages of 71 and 80; 535 between the ages of 81-90; and 58 between the ages of 91 and 100.
