KARACHI:As many as 56 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,2398 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 21,689 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 Sunday, a total of 941,170 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 327,604 cases were in Sindh, 343,926 in Punjab, 26,201 in Balochistan, 135,877 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 82,099 in Islamabad, 5,707 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 19,756 in Azad Kashmir. However, 877,191 patients have recovered from the disease so far.