KARACHI:As many as 57 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,502 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 12,185 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Thursday a total of 559,093 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 252,296 cases were in Sindh, 162,391 in Punjab, 18,898 in Balochistan, 68,972 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 42,279 in Islamabad, 4,923 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,334 in Azad Kashmir. However, 516,683 patients have recovered from the disease so far.