COVID-19 claims 14 more lives, infects 1,443 others: CM.

KARACHI -- As many as 14 more patients of COVID-19 died overnight in Sindh, lifting the death toll to 3,769 and 1,443 new cases emerged when 13,340 tests were conducted.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued on Friday. He added that 14 more patients of coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 3,769 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.

The CM said that 13,340 samples were tested against which 1,443 cases were diagnosed constituting 10.8 percent detection rate. He added that so far 2,552,182 tests have been conducted which detected 233,396 cases, of them 91 percent or 212,266 patients have recovered, including 1,492 overnight.

Shah said that currently 17,361 patients were under treatment, of them 16,402 were in home isolation, 13 at isolation centres and 946 at different hospitals. He added that the condition...