Karachi, January 17, 2022 (PPI-OT):As many as six more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,703 and 3,238 new cases emerged when 17,725 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Monday. He added that six more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 7,703 that constituted 1.5 percent death rate. Mr. Shah said that 17,725 samples were tested which detected 3,238 cases that constituted 18.3 percent current detection rate.

He added that so far 7,368,038 tests have been conducted against which 504,193 cases were diagnosed, of them 93.7 percent or 472,524 patients have recovered, including 399 overnight. The CM said that currently 23,963 patients were under treatment, of them 23,643 were in home isolation, 26 at isolation centres and 294 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 260 patients was stated to be critical, including 20 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 3,238 new cases, 2,446 have been detected from Karachi, including 976 from East, 695 South, 521 Central, 242 Korangi, 219 Malir and West 93. Hyderabad has 186, Sukkur 53, Shikarpur 34, Ghotki 24, Jacobabad 22, Dadu 21, Jamshoro 20, Mirpurkhas and Shaheed Benazirabad 14 each, Sanghar 12, Naushero Feroze and Thatta 11 each, Matiari and Badin 10 each, Larkana, Tando Muhammad Khan nine each, Kashmore eight, Tando Allahyar and Umerkot six each, Khairpur and Tharparkar two each.

Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 31,924,593 vaccinations have been administered upto January 15th, and added during the last 24 hours 164,790 vaccines were inoculated – in total 32,09,383 vaccines have administered which constituted 57.98 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.

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