KARACHI:As many as 65 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 2,724 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 20,465 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 Wednesday, a total of 908,576 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 311,766 cases were in Sindh, 336,315 in Punjab, 24,733 in Balochistan, 130,644 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 80,662 in Islamabad, 5,516 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 18,940 in Azad Kashmir. However, 827,843 patients have recovered from the disease so far.