39 more Omicron variant cases surface in 24 hours  

KARACHI: Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister of Sindh, claimed 39 more cases of the Omicron variant. 

These cases emerged when 53 samples were tested, lifting the tally to 367, and 940 new cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed through 13,757 tests, and one more patient died, lifting the death toll to 7,682.

He shared the Omicron cases report said that during the last two days, 53 tests were conducted, which detected 39 new cases lifting the number of Omicron variant cases detected in the province so far to 367.

Giving details of the COVID-19 situation, He said one more patient of COVID-19 died overnight, lifting the death toll to 7,682, constituting a 1.6 per cent death rate and 940 new cases emerged when 13,757 tests were conducted that came to 6.8 per cent of the current detection rate. He said that 7,270,087 tests had been conducted against which 487,290 cases were diagnosed, of the 96.2 per cent or 468,922 patients have recovered.

He claimed that currently, 10,686 patients were under treatment. Of the 10,410 who were in home isolation, 120 were at isolation centres, and 156 were at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 150 patients was stated to be critical, including 17 shifted to ventilators.

Out of 940 new cases, 799 have been detected from Karachi, including 350 from District South, 275 District East, 115 District Central, 45 District Korangi, 35 District Malir and 24 District West. Hyderabad had 27, Thatta15, Jamshoro 11, Matiari and Shaheed Benazirabad 10 each, Larkana 8, Badin and Kamber 7 each, Sanghar 6, Umerkot 5, Jacobabad, Sujawal, Shikarpur and Nausheroferoze 4 each, Ghotki, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tharparkar, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas 3 each, Tando Allahyar 2 and Dadu had 1. 

Sharing vaccination data, he said that 30,618,044 vaccinations have been administered up to January 8th and added during the last 24 hours, 135,151 vaccines were inoculated - in total, 30,753,195 vaccines have been administered, which constituted 55.67 per cent of the vaccine eligible population.