Cirus claims 6 more lives, infects 163 others: CM.

KARACHI -- As many as six more patients of COVID-19 died taking the death toll to 2551 and 163 new cases emerged when 8497 samples were tested raising the tally to 140,294.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here from CM House. He said that six more patients died while struggling against the virus lifting the death toll to 2551 that constituted 1.8 percent death rate.

Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 8497 samples were tested against which 163 new cases of coronavirus were diagnosed that came to 1.9 percent current detection rate.

He added that so far 1,473,095 tests had been conducted which detected 140,294 cases, of them 95 percent or 132,933 patients had recovered, including 137 overnight.

The Sindh CM said that currently 4810 patients were under treatment, of them 4506 in home isolation, six at isolation centers and 298 at different hospitals. He added that the condition...