ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus claimed four more lives during the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the disease to 6,517, said the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday. According to the NCOC, 29,565 samples were tested for Covid-19 during this period, out of which 644 were declared positive. The number of infections across the country has reached 315,260 with the addition of the new cases. So far, 299,836 patients have recuperated from the disease. There are 8,907 active Covid-19 cases in the country. More than 3.6 million tests have been conducted.
So far, Sindh has reported 138,050 cases of the coronavirus, Punjab, 99,812, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 37,973, Balochistan, 15,371, Islamabad, 16,766, Gilgit Baltistan, 3,828, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir has reported 2,828 cases.
Meanwhile, a doctor deputed at the Polyclinic Islamabad has been confirmed with coronavirus. The doctor, whose identity has been kept secret, was working in the Urology department of the hospital and was tested after showing signs of the coronavirus infection on Saturday.
After the confirmation of the virus, the infected doctor has been isolated, said the sources within the polyclinic hospital, while the staff working along with the was also quarantined.
The federal capital city had reported another 53 cases of Covid-19 on Sunday as a spike in cases of disease being witnessed.
As many as 4,746 samples were tested during the last 24 hours, out of which 53 turned out to be positive, federal health authorities had said. So far, Islamabad has reported 16,766 cases of the coronavirus, however the tally of active cases in the city has dropped to 549.
Meanwhile, active cases of Covid-19 in Balochistan reached its lowest level, the provincial health department said in a report on Monday. According to the provincial health department, 233 more patients of coronavirus recovered yesterday. The ratio of active cases of the virus in Balochistan, have now dropped to four percent.
The tally of total active cases has been 618 in the province, according to the report. A total of 15,399 cases of novel coronavirus have been reported in Balochistan so far and 14,635 patients have recovered to health, the report said.
In educational institutions, 593 tests conducted to diagnose coronavirus on Sunday last with zero detection of cases, the health department said in its report. Overall 146 patients have died of novel coronavirus in the province till now, the health department said.
Meanwhile, Punjab on Monday reported 129 new cases of Covid-19. Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar in a statement said that the province has 1689 active cases of coronavirus. He said Punjab has overall 99,941 cases of novel coronavirus, while 96,012 patients have recovered to health.
