KARACHI: Fifty two more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,272 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 12,488 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Thursday 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 254,678 cases were in Sindh, 165,716 in Punjab, 18,958 in Balochistan, 70,306 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 43,029 in Islamabad, 4,945 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,629 in Azad Kashmir. However, 530,597 patients have recovered from the disease so far.