KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday informed that eight patients succumbed to the virus, taking the death toll to 130, while 214 more patients had recovered from coronavirus and returned to their homes. “This is the first time that the recovery ratio seems to be a little encouraging but local spread cases are still on the rise,” he said in a statement issued from the CM House. Disclosing the daily bulletin of coronavirus updates, the chief minister said that 3,032 tests were conducted against which 363 new cases, or 11.9 per cent, were diagnosed as positive. Sharing the data of Karachi, Shah said that out of 363 cases, 231 belonged to the city. The chief minister said that the local spread was quite worrisome.

Source: Pakistan Today May 03, 2020 16:41 UTC