KARACHI:As many as 63 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,220 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 11,746 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Tuesday a total of 547,648 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 247,727 cases were in Sindh, 158,220 in Punjab, 18,830 in Balochistan, 67,419 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 41,493 in Islamabad, 4,909 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 9,050 in Azad Kashmir. However, 502,537 patients have recovered from the disease so far.