More twelve patients have died during the past 24 hours in Sindh, which has taken the death toll to 3,969 in the province here on Thursday.

According to the details, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said that 657 more people tested positive for the deadly virus during the same period.

Out of the 657 fresh cases of the virus, 414 were reported only in Karachi, CM Shah said. He maintained that total 222,623 patients have recuperated from the disease so far in the province.

Currently, 17,747 COVID-19 patients were under treatment across the province, he added.

Earlier on January 26, the coronavirus had claimed 25 more lives in Sindh overnight, lifting the provincial death toll from the disease to 3,925 whereas 739 new cases emerged when 11,083 tests were conducted.