KARACHI:As many as 79 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 4,213 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 18,149 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Monday, a total of 834,146 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 285,626 were in Sindh, 306,929 in Punjab, 22,620 in Balochistan, 120,064 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 76,209 in Islamabad, 5,327 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 17,371 in Azad Kashmir. However, 728,044 patients have recovered from the disease so far.