Sindh registers 1,235 cases, 11 deaths in last 24 hours.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister said on Thursday that the province registered as many as 11 coronavirus deaths and 1,235 new cases, down from 14 deaths and 1,769 infections recorded a day earlier.

The overall cases in the province had reached 231,953, while the death toll stood at 3,755, CM Murad Ali Shah said in a statement. The Chief Minister said that 13,008 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, out of which, 1,235 infections were recorded, taking the detection rate to 9.5%. On a positive note, CM Shah said that 210,774 patients had recovered from the virus, including 647 who had recovered in the last 24 hours.

At present, there are 17,424 patients under treatment in the province, out of which 16,525 are under home isolation, 12 at isolation centres, and 887 at different hospitals.

'The condition of 817 patients is critical,' he said, adding that 92 of those patients have been shifted to ventilators. Meanwhile, out of the 1,235 new cases, 979 had been detected from Karachi, including 351 from District South, 293 East, 121 Central, 119...