Karachi, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT): As many as seven more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,753 and 1,735 new cases emerged when 7,636 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Tuesday. He added that seven more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 7,753 that constituted 1.5 percent death rate. Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 7,636 samples were tested which detected 1,735 cases that constituted 22.7 percent current detection rate.

He added that so far 7,487,696 tests have been conducted against which 528,851 cases were diagnosed, of them 90 percent or 475,876 patients have recovered, including 790 overnight. The CM said that currently 45,222 patients were under treatment; of them 44,737 were in home isolation, 37 at isolation centres and 448 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 392 patients was stated to be critical, including 19 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 1,735 new cases, 1,478 have been detected from Karachi, including 690 from East, 314 South, 270 Central, 112 Korangi, 78 Malir and 14 West. Hyderabad has 86, Larkana and Sukkur 23 each, Jacobabad 13, Ghotki 12, Shikarpur 10, Khairpur nine, Shaheed Benazirabad seven, Thatta five, Mirpurkhas four, Jamshoro three, Badin, Dadu, Kashmore and Sanghar two each.

Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 33,462,019 vaccinations have been administered upto January 24th, and added during the last 24 hours 182,199 vaccines were inoculated – in total 33,644,218 vaccines have administered which constituted 60.62 percent of the vaccine eligible population.

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