Karachi, December 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):Fortunately, no death stemming from Coronavirus reported on 24 Hours, however 314 new cases emerged when 14,733 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here from CM House on Friday. Mr Shah said that fortunately no death was reported on yesterday. He added that till last Thursday the number death and was 7,670.

Mr. Shah said that 14,733 samples were tested which detected 314 cases that constituted 2.1 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 7,130,446 tests have been conducted against which 480,825 cases were diagnosed, of them 97.3 percent or 467,977 patients have recovered, including 334 overnight. The CM said that currently 5,178 patients were under treatment, of them 5,003 were in home isolation, 37 at isolation centres and 138 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 136 patients was stated to be critical, including 20 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 314 new cases, 160 have been detected from Karachi, including 75 from South, 52 East, 13 Korangi, 12 Central, West 5 and Malir three. Tando Muhammad Khan 17, Shaheed Benazirabad and Jamshoro 12 each, Hyderabad and Sujawal 11 each, Qambar ten, Mirpurkhas and Thatta nine each, Matiari, Sukkur and Ghotki eight each, Shikarpur seven, Jacobabad six, Badin and Larkana five each, Tharparkar and Umerkot three each, Naushero Feroze four, Khairpur and Tando Allahyar two each and Dadu one.

Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 29,071,280 vaccinations have been administered upto December 29th, and added during the last 24 hours 242,507 vaccines were inoculated – in total 29,313,787 vaccines have administered which constituted 53.15 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.

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