KARACHI: The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has reached 5,984 on Wednesday, while the death count jumped to 107, according to the national dashboard.
During the last 24 hours, the medical facilities conducted 3,157 tests while the total number of COVID-19 tests stands at 69,928.
The total count of COVID-19 cases includes 2,945 patients in Punjab, 1,518 in Sindh, 865 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 234 in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), 248 in Balochistan, 131 in Islamabad, and 43 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
The total number of fatalities due to the deadly virus stands at 28 in Punjab, 38 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 35 in Sindh, 02 in Balochistan, 03 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 01 in Islamabad.
Moreover, the federal government had extended the lockdown across the country for another two weeks for containing the pandemic. The country first closed all education institutes and suspended public gatherings on 13th March, about two weeks after the first coronavirus case was reported in Pakistan.
Since then, the government has taken numerous measures, including tracing and testing suspected cases, the establishment of large quarantine centers and partial lockdown of cities across the country.
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