KARACHI:As many as 71 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 2,463 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 10,176 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Friday a total of 482,178 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 215,679 cases were in Sindh, 138,608 in Punjab, 18,168 in Balochistan, 58,701 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 37,888 in Islamabad, 4,857 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 8,277 in Azad Kashmir.
However, 437,229 patients have recovered from the disease so far. There is continuous decline in the coronavirus cases and deaths across the country.