KARACHI: As many as 84 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 4,723 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 14,697 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Saturday, a total of 682,888 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 266,173 were in Sindh, 228,356 in Punjab, 19,679 in Balochistan, 90,262 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 60,197 in Islamabad, 5,045 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 13,176 in Azad Kashmir. However, 609,691 patients have recovered from the disease so far.