Pakistan reports 625 new COVID-19 cases, 15 deaths

ISLAMABAD: At least 15 more deaths have been reported in Pakistan due to the coronavirus and the total death toll has risen to 6,499.

According to statistics released by the National Command and Control Center, 625 new cases of the coronavirus were reported across the country, bringing the total number to 313,431.

The number of coronavirus active cases in the country is 8,877. During the last 24 hours, 558 the virus patients recovered and the total number of recovered people was 298,055. The number of coronavirus cases in Islamabad has reached 16,650.

At least 99,605 cases have been reported in Punjab, 1,037,467 in Sindh, 37,845 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15,302 in Balochistan, 3,808 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 2,754 in Azad Kashmir.

The death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 2,237 in Punjab and 2,512 in Sindh, while the number has risen to 1,260 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 182 in Islamabad, 146 in Balochistan, 88 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 74 in Azad Kashmir.

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There are facilities for coronavirus patients in 735 hospitals in Pakistan and the number of ventilators for corona patients in hospitals is 1,920. There are 132 testing laboratories operating in the country and trace, test, and quarantine strategies are working effectively in several cities.

One of the findings has come out of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. Epidemiologists at a leading institute there took samples from 1,675 people between May and July to figure out why the pandemic was tapering off in the country.