Two more dies of COVID-19, nine fresh cases detected: IEDCR

Two more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients died in the country overnight raising the death toll to eight and nine more new COVID-19 positive cases were detected during the same period , according to Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

�Two more COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, while the number of coronavirus cases has stood at 70 as nine more people have been infected by the lethal virus,� IEDCR Director Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora told a virtual media briefing at Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in the city today.