KARACHI: As many as 17 more patients of Coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,727 and 3,739 new cases emerged when 17,002 tests were conducted.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Thursday. He added that 17 more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 7,727 that constituted 1.5 percent death rate. Mr. Shah said that 17,002 samples were tested which detected 3,739 cases that constituted 22 percent current detection rate.

He added that so far 7,419,686 tests have been conducted against which 514,863 cases were diagnosed, of them 91.9 percent or 473,340 patients have recovered, including 332 overnight. The CM said that currently 33,796 patients were under treatment, of them 33,398 were in home isolation, 30 at isolation centers and 368 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 306 patients was stated to be critical, including 21 shifted to ventilators.

According to the statement, out of 3,739 new cases, 3,289 have been detected from Karachi, including 1,345 from East, 773 South, 655 Central, 261 Korangi, 145 Malir and West 110. Hyderabad has 145, Naushero Feroze 34, Jamshoro 29, Tharparkar 20, Tando Muhammad Khan 19, Badin 16, Dadu 15, Thatta, Umerkot and Sanghar 12 each, Larkana 11, Tando Allahyar, Jacobabad, Khairpur and Mirpurkhas 10 each, Shikarpur nine, Ghotki five, Shaheed Benazirabad four and Matiari one.

Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data the CM said that 32,462,394 vaccinations have been administered upto January 18th, and added during the last 24 hours 237,284 vaccines were inoculated – in total 32,699,678 vaccines have administered which constituted 59.01 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow SOPs.