Karachi, August 23, 2021 (PPI-OT):As many as 15 more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 6,627 and 1,459 new cases emerged when 18,455 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Monday. He added that 15 more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 6,627 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate. Mr. Shah said that 18,455 samples were tested which detected 1,459 cases that constituted 8 percent current detection rate.

He added that so far 5,411,268 tests have been conducted against which 422,370 cases were diagnosed, of them 86.9 percent or 367,241 patients have recovered, including 766 overnight. The CM said that currently 48,502 patients were under treatment, of them 47,259 were in home isolation, 35 at isolation centres and 1,208 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 1070 patients was stated to be critical, including 86 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 1,459 new cases, 706 have been detected from Karachi, including 313 from East, 194 South, 101 Central, 44 Malir, 38 Korangi, and 16 West. Hyderabad has 200, Khairpur 52, Sanghar 51, Jamshoro 39, Badin and Matiari 36 each, Mirpurkhas 35, Ghotki 33, Shaheed Benazirabad 29, Thatta 27, Naushero Feroze 24, Umerkot 23, Sukkur and Tharparkar 22, Dadu 19, Qamber 15, Shikarpur 14, Tando Allahyar 13, Jacobabad 10, Larkana three, Kashmore and Tando Muhammad Khan two each and Sujawal one.

Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 10,089,341 vaccinations have been administered upto August 21 and added during the last 24 hours 122,105 vaccines were inoculated – in total 10,211,446 vaccines have administered which constituted 29.76 percent of the vaccine eligible population. Murad Ali Shah urged people to abide by the SOPs issued by the government.

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