KARACHI: As many as 38 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,329 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 12,601 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Sunday a total of 567,261 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 255,834 cases were in Sindh, 167,345 in Punjab, 18,979 in Balochistan, 70,886 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 43,402 in Islamabad, 4,951 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,777 in Azad Kashmir. However, 534,107 patients have recovered from the disease so far.