Karachi, February 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):As many as two more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,980 and 994 new cases emerged when 13,270 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Sunday. He added that two more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 7,980 that constituted 1.4 percent death rate.

Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 13,270 samples were tested which detected 994 cases that constituted 7.5 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 7,753,593 tests have been conducted against which 555,916 cases were diagnosed, of them 91 percent or 505,172 patients have recovered, including 518 overnight. The CM said that currently 42,764 patients were under treatment; of them 42,446 were in home isolation, 29 at isolation centres and 289 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 260 patients was stated to be critical, including 19 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 994 new cases 731 have been detected from Karachi, including 238 from Malir, 130 West, 105 East, 91 Central, 89 Korangi, and 78 South. Hyderabad has 85, Jamshoro 21, Tando Muhammad Khan 16, Sujawal 15, Thatta 13, Sanghar and Sukkur 12 each, Umerkot and Tando Allahyar 11 each, Badin, Kashmore, Shikarpur and Tharparkar eight each, Ghotki and Matiari seven each, Mirpurkhas five, Shaheed Benazirabad three, Khairpur two and Larkana and Naushero Feroze one each.

Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 41,795,099 vaccinations have been administered upto February 11th, and added during the last 24 hours 871,136 vaccines were inoculated – in total 42,666,235 vaccines have administered which constituted 79.17 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.

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