Karachi March 14, 2021 Despite the rising Covid-19 cases in the country, which is being dubbed as the third wave of the pandemic in Pakistan, no death was reported in Sindh during 24 hours between Friday and Saturday. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said this on Saturday in his daily statement on the pandemic situation in Sindh. He added that a total of 220 new cases of Covid-19 had emerged in the province during the previous 24 hours, after 8,695 tests were conducted. With no death during the 24 hours, the death toll due to the infectious disease in Sindh remained at 4,453. Shah explained that the diagnosis of 220 new cases against 8,695 samples constituted a 2.5 per cent current detection rate. So far 3,136,213 tests for Covid-19 had been conducted in Sindh, against which 261,178 cases were diagnosed, of which 96.7 per cent or 252,674 patients had recovered, including 49 during the previous 24 hours, he added.