Covid-19 claims 22 more lives: Murad.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday said that Covid-19 had infected 1,736 people raising the tally to 99,362 and claimed 22 more lives overnight lifting the death toll to 1,637.

In a statement issued here from CM House, he said that 9,318 samples were tested which detected 1,736 new cases constituting 19 per cent detection rate.

He added that so far 533,540 tests had been conducted against which 99,362 cases were diagnosed that came to 19pc detection rate. 'Our current and overall detection rate stands at 19 per cent which is high and worrisome,' he said.

So far, 1,637 patients have died which constituted 1.6pc death rate.

Mr Shah said that currently, 41,352 patients were under treatment, of them 39,199 were in home isolation, 352 at isolation centres and 1,801 at different hospitals of the province.

He added that the condition of 655 patients was stated to be critical, of them 75 were shifted to ventilators.

The CM said that 1,697...