KARACHI:As many as 57 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 4,767 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 14,215 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Sunday, a total of 654,591 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 264,607 were in Sindh, 212,918 in Punjab, 19,497 in Balochistan, 84,609 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 55,594 in Islamabad, 4,999 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 12,367 in Azad Kashmir. However, 595,929 patients have recovered from the disease so far.