Karachi:As many as 1,332 new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours were reported in Pakistan on Wednesday while 38 more patients died of the virus disease. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 5,677 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.
According to the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination data, a total of 267,427 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 114,104 cases were in Sindh, 90,816 in Punjab, 11,469 in Balochistan, 32,523 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 14,701 in Islamabad, 1,878 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 1,937 in Azad Kashmir.
However, 204,276 patients have recovered from the disease so far. There is a continuous rise in virus disease cases in the country.