Coronavirus kills more 60 people in Pakistan during 24 hours

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Pakistan has reported 60 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 8,547 on Wednesday.

According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), 2,963 new cases due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours as the number of positive cases has surged to 426,142.

1,797 patients have recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours and 2,498 patients are in critical condition including 12 more declared critical. The total count of active cases is 45,324 and the positivity rate was recorded up to 7.78 per cent.

A total of 38,092 tests were conducted across the country during this period. Overall 372,271 people have recovered from the deadly disease so far while 5,865,944 samples have been tested thus far.

Sindh remains the worst-hit province by the pandemic in terms of cases followed by Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad. Punjab has overtaken Sindh in most number of casualties.

Till now 187,684 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Sindh, 124,804 in Punjab, 50,506 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 33,420 in Islamabad, 17,540 in Balochistan, 7,427 in Azad Kashmir and 4,761 in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Furthermore 3,242 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab 3,081 in Sindh, 1,429 in KP, 345 in Islamabad, 182 in Azad Kashmir, 170 in Balochistan, and 98 in GB.