Karachi, December 20, 2021 (PPI-OT):As many as 2 more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,654 and 151 new cases emerged when 12,187 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Monday. He added that 2 more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 7,654 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.

Mr. Shah said that 12,187 samples were tested which detected 151 cases that constituted 1.2 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 6,984,650 tests have been conducted against which 478,352 cases were diagnosed, of them 97.6 percent or 466,145 patients have recovered, including 217 overnight. The CM said that currently 4,553 patients were under treatment, of them 4,398 were in home isolation, 26 at isolation centres and 129 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 122 patients was stated to be critical, including 9 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 151 new cases, 29 have been detected from Karachi, including 15 from East, 9 South, 2 Central, 1 Korangi, Malir and West each. Jamshoro has 14, Hyderabad, Tando Muhammad Khan and Naushero Feroze 13 each, Shaheed Benazirabad 11, Matiari 10, Mirpurkhas 9, Dadu 5, Larkana, Sukkur, Tharparkar and Shikarpur 4 each, Badin, Umerkot, Sanghar, Tando Allahyar, Jacobabad and Ghotki 3 each.

Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 26,004,220 vaccinations have been administered upto December 18th, and added during the last 24 hours 165,384 vaccines were inoculated – in total 27,169,604 vaccines have administered which constituted 49.48 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.

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