Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Pakistan has reported 43 deaths in the last 24 hours by the novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 530,818. The nationwide tally of fatalities jumped to 11,247 on Saturday. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center 1,927 persons tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. Till now 239,935 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Sindh, 152,925 in Punjab 64,945 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 40,629 in Islamabad, 18,715 in Balochistan, 8,770 in Azad Kashmir and 4,899 in Gilgit-Baltistan.