TLTP
KARACHI
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah Sunday declared May as the “month of loss of life” because of the rise in new coronavirus cases, deaths and the unfortunate PIA plane crash in Karachi.
The chief minister in a statement said that deaths stemming from the coronavirus started from March 19 when the first patient died.
While sharing a monthly outlook, Shah said that in March, the virus claimed nine lives, in April 109 lives were lost, and in May, 363 lives were claimed by the coronavirus. “In this way, corona has claimed 481 valuable lives, including 16 on its last day, May 31,” said the minister. He added that apart from coronavirus, Pakistan also lost 97 lives in the PIA plane crash in Karachi on May 22.
“We have lost 515 lives in May alone,” he said.
The chief minister, in his daily statement on the number of coronavirus cases, said that 4,100 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours out of which 885 were positive. “This means our detection ratio comes to 21.6% which is again higher than various countries,” said Shah. He added that so far, Sindh has conducted 180,803 tests out of which 28,245 cases were diagnosed positive, which translates to 15.6% of the total tests. The chief minister said that 16 more patients died during the last 24 hours, lifting the death toll of the province to 481.
