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Coronavirus Update: Karachi having highest CFR

By Mukhtar Alam
(Pakistan News & Features Services)


The COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) for last 24 hours in Karachi was recorded 4.87, as the provincial health department declared registration of another 1,468 new cases on July 10, with 36 new deaths across the province.

According to the health department’s daily COVID-19 summary, Karachi reported 718 new infections, with 35 related deaths, during the last 24 hours ending on July 10 morning. Karachi’s CFR was 5.32 on July 9, the highest, among the districts and territories of Pakistan. 

The latest 35 fatalities at Karachi included 26 those of men and nine women. The deceased men aged from 42 to 81 years, while women were in the age brackets of 38 to 84 years. 

The city of Karachi in all had 77,639 infected people, since February 26 when the first COVID-19 case of the province was detected here. As many as 1,463 persons could not survive the lethal infection. 

A maximum of 188 patients have died so far at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, 185 at the Civil Hospital Karachi, 169 at DUHS Hospital, 140 at SIUT, 127 at Indus Hospital Karachi, 104 at AKUH, 73 at Ziauddin Hospital Clifton, 72 at the Karachi Trauma Centre and others.

In addition to fatalities registered at Karachi, death of a 45-year-old man was registered at Sanghar.

There was no information about the deceased persons’ hospitalization or home isolation from the health department.

The breakdown of districts, excluding Karachi, which reported new COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours came as: Shaheed Benazirabad (74), Hyderabad (71), Ghotki (71), Khairpur (56), Tando Allahyar (54), Jamshoro (52), Sukkur (48), Kashmore (41), Thatta (39), Kambar Shahdadkot (28), Mirpurkhas (28), Tando Mohammad Khan (23), Naushero Feroze (22), Mirpurkhas (21), Sujawal (21), Larkana (16), Shikarpur (15), Badin (15), Umerkot (11), Tharparkar (11), Jacobabad (7), Sanghar (6) and Dadu (5).

Sindh recorded a total of 102,368 COVID-19 cases till July 10, out of which 59,165 recovered from the diseases, while 1,069 were still in in critical condition. The death tally rose to 1,713.

In the meantime, according to an official summary, 243 patients were admitted at the intensive care units of various hospitals of Karachi, while 127 ICU beds were unoccupied.

As many as 1,012 high-dependency unit beds were vacant at Karachi hospitals, while only six per cents of 4,035 beds within the isolation centres were occupied lately.
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