KARACHI: As many as 36 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,392 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 12,896 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 581,365 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 258,266 were in Sindh, 172,054 in Punjab, 19,049 in Balochistan, 72,424 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 44,373 in Islamabad, 4,956 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 10,243 in Azad Kashmir. However, 545,277 patients have recovered from the disease so far.