From Zeeshan Mirza
KARACHI: On yet another day of a spike in COVID-19 cases in the Sindh, as many as 1,276 cases of the infection were reported in the province with nearly 1,000 of them from the provincial capital, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Friday.
“We have reported 1,276 COVID-19 cases in the province during the last 24 hours,” said the chief minister while giving a routine briefing on COVID-19 cases in the province.
He said that the province performed 12,975 tests, bringing the number of cases performed so far to 1,872,262. “We have so far reported 161,028 virus cases,” Murad Ali Shah said while conveying that 827 patients also recovered during the past 24 hours in the province, bringing total recoveries to 145,143.
The chief minister said that the death toll in the province has reached 2,799 after 19 more deaths reported from the province Friday.
He said there are 13,086 active virus patients being treated currently.
Giving details of the COVID-19 cases reported from Karachi, Murad Ali Shah said that the provincial capital reported 929 cases Friday which included 333 cases from district South, 273 from East, 94 from Central, 92 from district West, 75 from Korangi, and 62 patients from district Malir.
