Sindh reports highest detection rate as coronavirus cases soar to 213,470.

KARACHI -- Sindh reported a record 28 per cent detection rate on Wednesday as 2,139 of 8,201 people tested positive for the coronavirus, while the nationwide tally of cases soared to 213,470 with 4,133 new cases emerging in the past 24 hours.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, in a statement issued on Wednesday, said that 8,201 samples were tested against which 2,139 new cases of coronavirus were detected that constituted 28 per cent detection rate, one of the highest detection rates so far. He said that 46,1587 samples had been tested so far which diagnosed 86,139 cases all over Sindh that formed 19 per cent overall detection rate.

CM Murad said that 29 more patients lost their lives while fighting against the virus. He said that the number of

Covid-19 patients who had died so far had reached 1,406 that constituted 1.6 per cent death rate.

He also said that 1,703 more patients had recovered and returned to normal life. The patients recovered so far comes to 48,527 that constituted 56 per cent recovery rate, he added.

The chief minister said that currently, out of 36,803 under treatment patients, 35,131 were in home isolation, 158 at isolation centres and 1,514 at different hospitals. He added that currently, 707 patients were in critical condition, of them 104 had been shifted onto the ventilators.

Giving district-wise data, the chief minister said out of 2,139 new cases, 1038 belonged to Karachi. Among them, East has 401, South 258, Central 125, Korangi 101, Malir 82 and West 71.

He added that Hyderabad had 129 new cases, Sukkur 86, Shikarpur 70, Sanghar 66, Larkana 58, Shaheed Benazirabad 50, Mirpurkhas 36, Ghotki 31, Badin 29, Dadu 24, Jacobabad 24, Jamshoro 12, Naushehro Feroze 10, Khairpur nine...