KARACHI: Fifty six more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,165 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 12,436 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 565,989 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 254,286 cases were in Sindh, 165,200 in Punjab, 18,954 in Balochistan, 70,123 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 42,921 in Islamabad, 4,943 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,562 in Azad Kashmir. However, 528,545 patients have recovered from the disease so far.