Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Death toll from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country has climbed to 4,473 as 78 more people died of the highly contagious disease in the past 24 hours.
According to latest data of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 4,339 new infections were detected after 22,128 tests were conducted in the previous 24 hours, taking the national tally of cases to 217,808.
More than 1.3 million tests have been conducted in the country while 108,642 COVID-19 patients are undergoing treatment and 104,694 patients have recuperated from the disease.
86,795 cases have been detected in Sindh so far, 77,740 in Punjab, 26,938 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 10,608 in Balochistan, 13, 082 in Islamabad, 1,135 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and 1,511 in Gilgit Baltistan.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday said that 2,430 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported during the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections in the province to 89,225. In a statement on the coronavirus situation, CM Murad Ali Shah said that 31 more people succumbed to COVID-19 in past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 1,437. He maintained that 1,703 people were discharged from the hospitals today after recuperation from the infection across the province. The chief minister said that 36,072 coronavirus patients are undergoing treatment in Sindh, including, 243 at isolation centres and 1,578 at different hospitals.
