Sindh’s Covid death toll soars past 3,300 as 32 more perish
Karachi
December 19, 2020
The novel coronavirus has claimed 32 more lives in Sindh, with the majority of deaths occurring at health facilities in Karachi, during the last 24, raising the death toll to 3,302 in the province.
As many as 1,903 more people tested positive for the infectious disease when 20,681 tests were conducted, the highest number of tests conducted in a single day, raising the number of positive cases in Sindh to 202,983, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said in his daily Covid-19 situation report on Friday.
He said the fatality rate dropped to 1.6 per cent in Sindh with 32 deaths overnight despite the growing number of deaths on a daily basis, adding that the national fatality rate stood at two per cent, while the global rate of 2.23 per cent.
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KE CEO, others acquitted in electrocution case
Parties reached settlement out of court, state cops
A local court acquitted the K-Electric CEO and four others on Monday in a case pertaining to a citizen being electrocuted to death at a KE substation in Defence Housing Authority during the monsoon rains this year.
An additional district and sessions judge was hearing the case against KE CEO Moonis Alvi and four others at Karachi City Court.
The police submitted a report to change the status of the case to C-Class. According to the report, the parties have reached a settlement outside the court and the complainant no longer wishes to pursue legal action against KE authorities.