Coronavirus Update: 357 of 727 new cases in Sindh

By Mukhtar Alam

(Pakistan News & Features Services)

Sindh registered 357 new COVID-19 infection cases, against the national daily infection figure of 727 on August 5, with 14 more deaths. 

The Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, in his routine coronavirus-status statement, shared that 4,536 tests were conducted during the last 24 ending on August 5 afternoon across the province, with Karachi’s 213 (60%) having new positive cases. 

He revealed that the overall death tall had reached to 2,245 for the province. However, he did not give any information about the deceased persons’ hospitalization, age, gender and residential areas. 

He further informed that there were still 6,132 active COVID-19 patients in the province; 5,696 at homes, nine in isolation centres and 427 at hospitals, health condition of 274 of them were stated critical, while 44 were put on ventilators. 

In the meantime, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) Sindh sub-office report, as of August 4, there were 542 patients in the intensive care units of the COVID-19 specific hospitals across the province, 14% of which were on ventilators at Karachi, while another 7% at Shaheed Benazirabad.

The official data revealed that after Karachi the maximum new infections were reported from Badin (45) on August 5, followed by Jamshoro (10), Dadu (6), Shikarpur (6), Tando Mohammad Khan (6), Ghotki (5), Matiari (5), Hyderabad (4), Kambar Shahdadkot (4), Sanghar (4), Khairpur (3), Tando Allahyar (3) and Sukkur (2) while Jacobabad, Larkana and Mirpurkhas registered one new case each.