Number of recoveries from COVID-19 continues to increase across Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – The number of recoveries from COVID-19 continues to increase across the country with 210,468 patients so far recovered from the disease. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), 1332 new coronavirus cases were reported in the country during the last 24 hours taking the tally to 267,428. These include 114,104 in Sindh, 90,816 in Punjab, 32,523 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 11,469 in Balochistan, 14,701 in Islamabad, 1,878 Gilgit-Baltistan and 1,937 in Azad Kashmir. Meanwhile, 38 patients died of the virus during the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 5677. 18,331 corona tests were carried out during this period.

Global coronavirus cases

The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has increased to over 14.6 million while the deaths have topped to more than 6,09,000. The total number of cases stood at 1,46,55,405 while the fatalities rose to 6,09,198.

World’s highest number

The US accounted for the world’s highest number of infections and fatalities at 38,25,153 and 1,40,957, respectively. Brazil came in second place with 2,118,646 infections and 80,120 deaths.

India ranks third

In terms of cases, India ranks third (11,55,191) and is followed by Russia (7,76,212), South Africa (3,73,628), Peru (3,53,590), Mexico (3,49,396), Chile (3,30,930), the UK (2,96,944), Iran (2,76,202), Pakistan (2,65,083), Spain (2,64,836), Saudi Arabia (2,53,349), Italy (2,44,624), Turkey (2,20,572), France (2,14,023), Bangladesh (2,07,453), Colombia (2,04,005), Germany (2,03,325), Argentina (1,30,774), Canada (1,12,936) and Qatar (1,07,037).