KARACHI:As many as 26 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,048 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 12,333 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.

According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Monday a total of 564,077 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 253,762 cases were in Sindh, 164,268 in Punjab, 18,942 in Balochistan, 69,990 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 42,688 in Islamabad, 4,940 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,487 in Azad Kashmir. However, 525,997 patients have recovered from the disease so far.