Covid-19 claims another 48 victims, says Murad.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah said on Thursday that the coronavirus claimed 48 more lives overnight, lifting the death toll to 964 while 2,286 new cases were detected, raising the tally to 62,269.

In a statement issued from the CM House, he said that past 24 hours [between Wednesday and Thursday] proved to be the worst in terms of deaths stemming from the virus when 48 people lost their lives. 'It has hurt me so much because the number of deaths is the highest in a day so far,' he said and added that the death toll had reached 964 which constituted 1.55 per cent.

The CM said the government had increased its testing capacity from 80 per day to 11,000. 'Overnight, 11,044 tests were conducted against which 2,286 new cases were detected,' he said and added that the number of new cases were on the rise all over Sindh.

Mr Shah said that so far 340,487 tests had been conducted which produced 62,269 cases that constituted 18pc positive result. 'This is one of the highest ratios and needs to be controlled strictly,' he said.

According to the CM, 1,341 more patients recovered and their number so far has reached 31,034, which...