COVID-19 cases in Pakistan reach 2,413; death toll increases to 34

KARACHI: The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has reached 2,413 on Thursday, while and death count jumped to 32, according to the national dashboard.

The total count of COVID-19 includes 914 patients in Punjab, 761 in Sindh, 311 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 187 in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), 169 in Balochistan, 62 in Islamabad, and nine in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The death toll increases up to 32 and nine patients are in critical condition.

In Sindh, another person succumbed to the coronavirus illness bringing the provincial death toll to eleven. Sindh Health Minister Azra Fazl Pechuho confirmed an 86-year-old died man from the coronavirus in Karachi.

The health minister said the elderly man had no foreign travel history and was infected locally. He had tested positive for the coronavirus on April 1 and an underlying issue of blood pressure. The minister said the death toll from the disease has reached eleven with 761 COVID-19 positive cases recorded in the province so far.

The minister said twenty new cases of novel coronavirus were confirmed in Sindh this evening, including 12 cases in Karachi, while eight have been detected in pilgrims who arrived at the Sukkur isolation facility from Iran via Taftan border crossing on March 31.

Pechuhu said the number of coronavirus cases in Karachi is 295 while 135 cases were detected in Hyderabad. She said 250 cases were reported among pilgrims at the Sukkur quarantine centre.

Murtaza Wahab, a spokesperson for the provincial government said that eleven more patients have recovered and their coronavirus test has come out negative. The total number of recovered patients in Sindh stands at 65.