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QUETTA: The total number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan surged to 4,980 on Saturday due to the spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in Balochistan.
Balochistan has registered eight more cases of coronavirus after which the number of people affected by the outbreak has increased to 228 in the province.
According to the National Command and Operation Center, 190 new cases were reported in the country during the last 24 hours.
The number of the virus cases reported highest in Punjab with 2,336, 1,218 in Sindh, 656 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 113 in Islamabad, 215 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 34 cases were reported in Azad Kashmir.
Overall, 54 percent of the cases came from other countries and 46 percent were locally transmitted. So far 762 patients have recovered and 77 have died from the virus.
The total number of deaths in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is 25, 22 in Sindh, 02 in Balochistan, 03 in Gilgit-Baltistan, 19 in Punjab, and 01 in Islamabad.
So far 57,836 people have been tested for the virus across the country and 2,457 new tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours. Moreover, the partial lockdown that is imposed to minimize the spread of the virus in Pakistan has been extended in two provinces i.e Punjab and Balochistan.
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