KARACHI: The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has reached 2,441 today, while the death count jumped to 35.
According to the national dashboard, the total count of COVID-19 includes 920 patients in Punjab, 783 in Sindh, 311 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 187 in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), 169 in Balochistan, 62 in Islamabad, and nine in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
At least 37 new cases of coronavirus were reported in different areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the last 24 hours. In a tweet, KP’s Health and Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra said that out of the 37 confirmed cases, 17 were reported in Peshawar, six in Kohat and five in Lower Dir.
He declared that all the 42 coronavirus test results of the people kept in quarantine centres in DI Khan and Peshawar came out as negative today. The minister said that 65 people were tested positive and 269 were declared as healthy so far.
Earlier on Thursday, Sindh Health Minister Dr. Azra Pechuho confirmed two deaths by stating that two men, a 65-year-old and 86-year-old, residents of Karachi, succumbed to the coronavirus illness bringing the provincial death toll to eleven.
The confirmed cases of the coronavirus had surpassed one million around the world and killed at least 53,195 people. More than 200,000 people have recovered from the virus so far.
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