46 more die of coronavirus in Sindh: CM.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Tuesday that overnight COVID-19 had claimed 46 more lives and infected 1,708, lifting the death toll to 1,572 and cases tally to 96,236.

In a statement issued here from CM House, the chief minister said that 46 more patients lost their lives while struggling against coronavirus, lifting the death toll to 1,572 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate. He added that 1,708 new cases emerged when 12,479 samples were tested which constituted 14 percent detection rate. The CM said that so far 514,905 samples had been tested against which 96,236 cases were detected. Shah said that 679 persons had recovered after contracting the coronavirus. The number of patients recovered so far has reached 53,855 constituting 56 percent recovery rate.

Shah said that currently, 40,809 patients were under treatment, of them 38,875 were in home isolation, 327 at isolation centers and 1,607 at different hospitals. He...