KARACHI: As many as 77 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,118 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 21,453 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February 2020.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Wednesday, a total of 936,131 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 325,110 cases were in Sindh, 343,031 in Punjab, 25,961 in Balochistan, 134,928 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 81,871 in Islamabad, 5,664 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 19,566 in Azad Kashmir. However, 869,691 patients have recovered from the disease so far.