Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 05 Nov 2020, 08:43 pm Print
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Islamabad: Pakistan's Sindh region has registered 556 new cases of the coronavirus and 17 deaths, which is the highest daily jump in infections since July 29, media reports said on Friday.
Sindh's case tally now stands at 148,343, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said in a statement as quoted by Dawn News.
The province has registered 2664 deaths so far.
A total of 11,530 tests were carried out during the last 24 hours, showing that Sindh's positivity rate has climbed to nearly five per cent, reports Dawn News.
Meanwhile, a meeting presided over by Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood and comprising his provincial counterparts decided Thursday Pakistan's schools would remain open, as of now, despite the rising number of coronavirus infections and deaths, Geo News reported.
The decision was made unanimously by all provincial education ministers after health ministry officials briefed the participants of the online meeting on Pakistan's coronavirus situation, the Pakistani news channel reported.
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