KARACHI:As many as 55 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 2,123 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 10,772 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Wednesday a total of 508,824 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 228,949 cases were in Sindh, 146,525 in Punjab, 18,467 in Balochistan, 62,018 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 39,462 in Islamabad, 4,882 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 8,521 in Azad Kashmir. However, 464,950 patients have recovered from the disease so far.