Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The Coronavirus seems to be gradually rearing its ugly head again across the country as 908 fresh cases of the deadly disease emerged over the past 24 hours, said the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday.
According to the NCOC, the total number of confirmed patients of Covid-19 has risen to 331,108. Sixteen people succumbed to the infection during the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 6,775.
As many as 29,449 samples were tested for the coronavirus. There are a total of 11,695 active cases of Covid-19 as 312,638 out of the total confirmed patients have recuperated. A total of 897 patients are under treatment in hospitals across the country and 95 of them are on ventilators.
So far, Sindh has reported 144,765 cases, followed by Punjab that has reported 103,587 cases while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reported 39,277, Balochistan 15,876, Islamabad 19,454, Gilgit Baltistan 4,211 and Azad Jammu and Kashmir 3,938.
