KARACHI:As many as 3,369 new coronavirus cases were reported during the last 24 hours in Pakistan while 72 more patients died of the virus disease, raising the country-wide death toll from the virus to 8,796 since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination report on Sunday, a total of 438,425 people have tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 194,359 cases were in Sindh, 127,212 in Punjab, 17,737 in Balochistan, 52,092 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 34,579 in Islamabad, 4,783 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 7,663 in Azad Kashmir.
However, 383,000 patients have recovered from the disease so far. There is a continuous rise in virus disease cases in the country.