Pakistan reports 591 COVID-19 cases, four deaths

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported 591 new coronavirus cases and four deaths during the past 24 hours bring the number of confirmed infections in the country to 292,765 and fatalities to 6,235.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 24,956 samples were tested for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, resulting in the emergence of 591 new cases across the county.

So for, 275,836 patients have recovered from the infection, bringing the number of active cases of the virus down to 10,694.

A total of 1,173 patients are under treatment at 735 hospitals across the country, 121 of whom are struggling for their lives on ventilators. More than 2.4 million tests have been conducted thus far.

Sindh has reported 127,965 cases, Punjab 96,178, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 35,720, Balochistan 12,507, Islamabad 15,493, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 2,245 and Gilgit Baltistan 2,657.

Coronavirus testing capacity in the country has exceeded 60,000 per day and 132 testing laboratories are working.  According to the government, the graph of coronavirus cases in Pakistan is constantly declining, but the threat of corona has not yet been averted.

The global pandemic COVID-19 has killed over 808,697 people worldwide and affected more than 23,380,568 people.

According to the latest data, the number of coronavirus infection cases across the world has surged to 23,380,568 and the pandemic has so far claimed 808,697 lives on Sunday.