KARACHI:As many as 83 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 1,893 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 21,105 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 Friday, a total of 928,588 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 321,425 cases were in Sindh, 341,390 in Punjab, 25,476 in Balochistan, 133,746 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 81,540 in Islamabad, 5,623 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 19,388 in Azad Kashmir. However, 856,005 patients have recovered from the disease so far.