KARACHI:As many as 2,829 new coronavirus cases were reported during the last 24 hours in Pakistan while 43 more patients died of the virus disease, raising the country-wide death toll from the virus to 7,985 since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination report on Sunday, a total of 395,185 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 171,595 cases were in Sindh, 118,511 in Punjab, 17,101 in Balochistan, 46,877 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 29,782 in Islamabad, 4,637 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 6,682 in Azad Kashmir.
However, 339,810 patients have recovered from the disease so far. There is a continuous rise in virus disease cases in the country.