ISLAMABAD: At least 847 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Pakistan and the total number of affected people has reached 327,063.
According to the National Command and Operations Center, 12 more deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours due to coronavirus and the total death toll has reached 6,727.
In Pakistan, 10,235 coronavirus patients are being treated in various hospitals and 310,101 have recovered. The coronavirus has killed 2,334 people in Punjab and 2,594 in Sindh. The death toll in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has risen to 1,268, 207 in Islamabad, 148 in Balochistan, 90 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 86 in Azad Kashmir.
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The number of coronavirus cases in Islamabad has reached 18,764. 102,467 cases have been reported in Punjab, 143,222 in Sindh, 38,923 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15,791 in Balochistan, 4,148 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 3,748 in Azad Kashmir.
There are facilities for coronavirus patients in 735 hospitals in Pakistan and the number of ventilators for coronavirus 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.
According to the government, the graph of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has now started increasing again. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) had noted an increase in the country’s positivity rate and virus-related deaths.