Karachi:As many as 2,165 new coronavirus cases were reported in Pakistan on Saturday while 17 more patients died of the virus disease. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 7,109 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to National Command and Operation Centre daily report, a total of 354,461 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 153,873 cases were in Sindh, 109,309 in Punjab, 16,328 in Balochistan, 41,723 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23,533 in Islamabad, 4,434 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 5,261 in Azad Kashmir.
However, 322,414 patients have recovered from the disease so far. There is continuous rise in the coronavirus cases and deaths across the country.