COVID-19 claims 20 more patients, infects 748 others.

KARACHI -- As many as 20 more patients of coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 3,875 and 748 new cases emerged when 6,651 tests were conducted.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued on Friday. He added that 20 more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lift-ing the death toll to 3,875 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.

Mr Shah said that 6,651 samples were tested which detected 748 cases that con-stituted 11.2 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 2,626,359 tests have been conducted against which 239,934 cases were diagnosed, of them 91 percent or 217,863 patients have recovered, including 943 overnight.

The CM said that currently 18,196 patients were under treatment, of them 17,222 were in home isolation, 13 at isolation centres and 961...