KARACHI: Thirty-one more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,702 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 12,307 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued Sunday, a total of 563,029 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 253,511 cases were in Sindh, 163,833 in Punjab, 18,929 in Balochistan, 69,778 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 42,590 in Islamabad, 4,940 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,448 in Azad Kashmir. However, 525,087 patients have recovered from the disease so far.