214 go home in one day after recovering from Covid-19.

KARACHI -- Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said that 214 more patients recovered and returned to their homes while another 363 positive cases emerged between Saturday and Sunday.

'This is for the first time the recovery ratio seems to be encouraging but local spread cases are still on the rise,' he added.

In a statement, the CM said that 3,032 tests were conducted against which 363 new cases, or 11.9 per cent of the tests, were diagnosed with Covid-19.

He said that the health department had tested 64,052 samples so far and detected 7,465 cases, which constitute 11.7pc cases of the total tests.

Mr Shah said that eight more patients died taking the death toll to 130, which was 1.7pc of the total patients.

'This shows that our recovery ratio is comparatively better,' he said.

He said that 5,780 patients were under treatment, including 4,638 in home isolation, 615 at isolation centres and 527 at different hospitals. He added that 76...