KARACHI: As many as 307 new coronavirus cases were detected and 11 more infected people died overnight taking the death toll to 148 in the province.

This was disclosed on Tuesday by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here from CM House.

He said that 2,250 samples were tested over the past 24 hours resulting in 307 new cases.

`The health department has so f ar conducted 68,873 tests against which 8,189 positive cases were diagnosed,` he added.

Mr Shah said that the coronavirus claimed 11 more lives and the death toll had reached 148.

He added that 42 more people recovered and were discharged from facilities. `As many as 1,670 patients have recovered so far which constitutes 20.5 per cent recovery rate,` he added.

According to the chief minister, 6,370 patients were under treatment, and 5,139 of them were in home isolation, 736 at isolation centres and 495 in dif ferent hospitals.

He added that 82 patients were in critical condition and three of them were put on ventilators.

Mr Shah said that out of 307 new coronavirus cases, 237 belonged to Karachi and 70 of them were in district Central, 45 in East, 21 in Korangi, 55 in Malir, 34 in South and 12 in West.

He added that 21 new cases had emerged in Khairpur, 12 inKandhkot-Kashmore,eightinLarkana,fiveinHyderabad, three in Sukkur and one each in Badin, Sanghar and Shaheed Benazirabad.

The chief minister urged people of Sindh to follow the SOPs, otherwise local spread could not be controlled.