Sindh’s Covid death toll soars past 3,300 as 32 more perish
Karachi
December 19, 2020
The novel coronavirus has claimed 32 more lives in Sindh, with the majority of deaths occurring at health facilities in Karachi, during the last 24, raising the death toll to 3,302 in the province.
As many as 1,903 more people tested positive for the infectious disease when 20,681 tests were conducted, the highest number of tests conducted in a single day, raising the number of positive cases in Sindh to 202,983, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said in his daily Covid-19 situation report on Friday.
He said the fatality rate dropped to 1.6 per cent in Sindh with 32 deaths overnight despite the growing number of deaths on a daily basis, adding that the national fatality rate stood at two per cent, while the global rate of 2.23 per cent.