By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: The national tally on Friday of total active COVID-19 cases recorded 24,139 with 1,245 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 1,243 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.
Forty corona patients have died during past 24 hours, 39 of them were under treatment in hospital and one in their respective quarantines and homes on Thursday, according to the latest update issued by the National Command and Operation Centre.
During the last 24 hours most of the deaths had occurred in the Punjab followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Multan 25 percent, Islamabad Capital Territory 35 percent, Peshawar 26 percent and Lahore 35 percent.
The maximum Oxygen beds (alternate oxygen providing facility other than ventilator administered as per medical requirement of COVID patient) was also occupied in four major areas of Gujrat 61 percent, Peshawar 37 percent, Multan 24 percent, and Lahore 24 percent.
Around 241 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in the country while no COVID affected person was on ventilator in AJK, Gilgit Baltistan and Balochistan. Some 34,754 tests were conducted across the country on Thursday, including 10,863 in Sindh, 12,049 in Punjab, 6,430 in KP, 3,456 in Islamabad, 725 in Balochistan, 467 in GB, and 764 in AJK.
