KARACHI:As many as 20 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 914 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 22,231 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February 2020.

According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Monday, a total of 955,657 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 336,076 cases were in Sindh, 345,900 in Punjab, 27,064 in Balochistan, 137,759 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 82,596 in Islamabad, 6,019 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 20,243 in Azad Kashmir. However, 901,201 patients have recovered from the disease so far.