The Eid al-Adha day cut no slack to Covid victims in the Sindh province as in the 24-hour period on Wednesday, as many as 28 more people plunged to the global pandemic raging into its fourth wave while 1,336 fresh cases have emerged, reported.
Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah said Wednesday in his daily Covid breifing that the past 24 hours have seen 28 Covid-led casualties.
With new deaths reported today, the CM siad, death toll of Sindh has risen to 5,784 since the first outbreak of the virus.
He said, as of now there are 66 patients on ventilator support as the delta variant of the virus is rampant.
Covid-19 claims 40 more lives as 2,579 fresh cases emerge in Pakistan
The coronavirus claimed 40 more lives across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 22,888.
As many as 2,579 new cases of Covid-19 emerged when 41,186 samples were tested, according to the latest National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) update.
The postivity rate of infections was recorded at 6.26 per cent, it said. The country’s caseload climbed to 996,451 after 2,579 new cases were detected.
