COVID-19 claims 17 more lives, infects 1,120 others: CM.

KARACHI -- As many as 17 more patients died overnight due to COVID-19, lifting the death toll to 3,319 and 1,120 new cases emerged when 10,372 tests were conducted.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued from CM House on Saturday.

He said that overnight 17 more patients lost their lives, lifting the death toll to 3,319 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.

Murad Ali Shah said that 10,372 samples were tested which diagnosed 1,120 cases that constituted 10.8 percent current detection rate.

He added that so far 2,222,406 tests have been conducted against which 204,103 cases have been detected, of them 88 percent or 179,780 patients have recovered, including 914 overnight.

The CM said that currently 21,004 patients were under treatment, of them 20,158 in home isolation, 15 at isolation centres and 831 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 727 patients was...