KARACHI: As many as 53 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,302 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 11,886 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Friday a total of 551,842 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 249,498 cases were in Sindh, 159,705 in Punjab, 18,844 in Balochistan, 68,004 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 41,734 in Islamabad, 4,913 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,144 in Azad Kashmir.However, 507,502 patients have recovered from the disease so far.