363 new cases detected, eight lost their lives in Sindh: CM Sindh.

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

'This is for the first time the recovery ratio seems to be encouraging but more local spread cases are still on the rise," he said in a statement issued from the CM House.

About daily cases of Coronavirus, the chief minister said that 3032 tests were conducted against which 363 new cases or 11.9 percent of the tests were diagnosed positive. The health department has tested 64,052 samples so far and detected 7465 new cases of coronavirus which constitute 11.7 percent cases of the total tests, he said.

Syed Murad Ali Shah said that eight patients succumbed to the virus taking the death toll to 130 which was 1.7 percent of the total patients. 'This shows that our recovery ratio is comparatively better,' he said.

The chief minister said tat 5780 patients were under treatment, including 4638 at home isolation, 615 at Isolation centres and 527 at different hospitals.

He added that 76 patients were in critical...

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