Over 1500 tested positive for deadly Coronavirus during last 24 hours

Over 1500 tested positive for deadly Coronavirus during last 24 hours in Pakistan.

The total active COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 16,912 after 1,502 more people tested positive for the deadly virus.

Over 1500 tested positive for deadly Coronavirus

As many as twenty corona patients died during last 24 hours.

Of them, 18 of had remained under treatment in hospital and two out of hospital.

According to the latest update of the National command and Operation Centre (NCOC), they died on Friday.

No COVID affected person reported on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit Baltistan (GB) and Balochistan.

However, 129 ventilators elsewhere in Pakistan, out of 1,857 allocated for COVID-19 patients, reported occupied with patients.

Some 34,400 tests conducted across the country on Friday. They included 10,330 in Sindh, 12,194 in Punjab, 4,284 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 6,496 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 207 in Balochistan, 417 in GB, and 472 in AJK.

Around 317,898 people have recovered from the disease so far across Pakistan.

That made it a significant count with over 90 percent recovery ratio of the affected patients.

Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 341,753 cases detected so far.

They included AJK 4,652, Balochistan 16,041, GB 4,343, ICT 21,302, KP 40,285, Punjab 106,208 and Sindh 148,922.

About 6,943 deaths were recorded in country since the eruption of the contagion, including 2,667 Sindh among two of them died in hospital and one out of hospital on Friday.

2,399 in Punjab eight of them died in hospital and one out of hospital on Friday, 1,288 in KP one of them died in hospital on Friday.

236 in ICT among five of them died in hospital on Friday, 153 in Balochistan one of them died in hospital on Friday.

93 in GB one of them died in hospital on Friday and 107 in AJK died due to COVID-19.

A total of 4,643,913 corona tests have been conducted so far, while 735 hospitals are equipped with COVID facilities.

Some 1,057 corona patients were admitted in hospitals across the country.

GTV