By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: Some nine more patients have died of Covid-19 and another 747 person have been tested positive during the past 24 hours, said latest statics released by National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday. The Covid-19 tally in the country rises to 288,047 including 16,261 active cases and recoveries touching to 265,624 mark in the last 24 hours.
Some 1,311 indoor Covid patients were being treated in country’s 735 hospitals having dedicated facilities for infected patients.
The is no patient on ventilators in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Balochistan. As many as 149 patients were on ventilators out of a total of 1,920 ventilators allocated for Covid-19 patients at across country hospitals.
Some 23,722 COVID tests have been carried out across the country on Friday last. Of which 9,383 tests have been conducted in Sindh, 7,867 in Punjab, 2,128 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2,620 in Islamabad Capital Territory ( ICT), 1,238 in Balochistan, 156 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 330 tests have been carried out in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Friday.
As many as 125,632 Covid-19 positive cases tops the tally of infections followed by Punjab with 95,203 cases, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has 35,091 Covid patients, ICT 15,346, Balochistan 12,144, GB 2,452 and AJK at the bottom with 2,179 Covid patients so far. A total of 6,162 persons have so far died after contracting novel coronavirus in the country. Of which 2,313 have been passed away in Sindh province, 2,180 in Punjab,1,238 in KP, 173 in ICT, 138 in Balochistan and 60 each Covid patients have so far lost their lives in Gilgit Baltistan and AJK. According to NCOC, 2,253,131 tests have so far been carried out in the country.
Moreover, Punjab reported 210 new coronavirus cases and one death over the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections in the province to 95,203 and fatalities to 2,180. A spokesperson for the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department said that as many as 816,126 samples have been tested for COVID-19 across the province, out of which 95,203 turned out to be positive. In last 24 hours Punjab reported no new deaths from coronavirus, the spokesperson said. A total of 86,424 patients have recuperated from the disease thus far, the statement said.
According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 09 more people died due to coronavirus-related complications in past 24 hours, pushing the death toll from the disease in the country to 6,162. The number of active coronavirus cases has dropped to 16,261 as 265,624 patients have recuperated. As many as 23,722 more samples were tested over the previous 24 hours, taking the total number of tests conducted across the country thus far to more than 2.2 million.
