KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Monday that 1,464 new cases of the coronavirus emerged overnight, raising the tally to 71,092 while 14 more patients died, lif ting the death toll to 1,103 in the province.

In a statement issued from the CM House, he said that 1,464 tested positive of the 9,841 tests conducted, which was 15 per cent of the total. `So far 388,690 samples have been tested which have detected 71,092 cases that came to 18.3 per cent,` he added.

According to the CM, 14 more patients died overnight, constituting 1.5pc death rate. `At present, 617 patients were in critical condition, of them 111 have been put on ventilators,` he added.

He said that at present, 32,945 patients were under treatment, including 31,390 at home isolation, 47 at isolation centres and 1,508 at different hospitals of the province.

As many as 766 patients recovered overnight.

Mr Shah said that out of the 1,464 new cases, 976 belonged to Karachi, including 297 in East, 282 in South, 153 in Central, 116 in Korangi, 96 in West and 32 new cases in Malir.

The CM said Ghotki had 48 cases, Hyderabad 40, Sukkur 39, Larkana 37, Sanghar 29, Khairpur 25, Mirpurkhas 15, Dadu 13, Shaheed Benazirabad eight, Thatta seven,Shikarpur and Naushahro Feroze six each, Umerkot five, Qambar three and Jamshoro, Badin and Matiari had two cases each.

He urged people of the province to be responsive to the standard operation procedures and selec-tive lockdown.

Meanwhile, a resident of Azad Kashmir died of the coronavirus in Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) on Monday, taking total tally of virus-related deaths here to 48, according to LUH`s focalperson for Covid-19.

He was brought from Sujawal district and said to be employee of a sugar mill there. The body of the 55-year-old man had been handed over to Edhi volunteers who dispatched it to Karachi.