The total active Covid-19 cases in Pakistan on Sunday were recorded at 6,952 as 640 more people tested positive for the deadly virus during the last 24 hours.
One corona patient, who was under treatment in hospital died, according to the latest update issued by the National command and Operation Center (NCOC). No Covid-affected person was on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Balochistan, while 106 ventilators elsewhere in Pakistan, out of 1,912 allocated for Covid-19 patients, were occupied.
Some 34,544 tests were conducted across the country, including 14,502 in Sindh, 12,023 in Punjab, 2,640 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 3,210 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 1,320 in Balochistan, 382 in Gilgit Baltistan (GB), and 467 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). Around 292,303 people have recovered from the disease so far across Pakistan making it a significant count with over 90 percent recovery ratio of the affected patients.
Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 305,671 cases were detected so far, including AJK 2,517, Balochistan 14,269, GB 3,450, ICT 16,124, KP 37317, Punjab 98,368 and Sindh 133,626.
As many as 321 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported over the past 24 hours in Sindh, pushing the provincial tally of conformed cases to 133,947. In a statement on the daily COVID-19 situation, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said the number of deaths from the virus reached 2,460 with the death of one more person today in the province. “Currently, 3,080 patients are under treatment, of them 24 are on ventilators,” he added.
The chief minister said that 168 more people recuperated from the disease during the past 24 hours as the number of people defeating the deadly virus has surged to 128,407.
Punjab reported 96 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the government’s coronavirus portal. This has taken the provincial tally to 98,368. The province has not reported any additional fatalities from the virus.
