LAHORE : Corona virus claimed 148 lives in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of nationwide fatalities to 16,600 on Wednesday.
The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) statistics said ,5,499 persons tested positive in one day steering the national toll of confirmed cases to 772,381.
As many as 47301 tests were conducted all over the country. 5488 people are said to have been recovered amid the reports that number of recovered people has reached 672619.
According to the national dashboard, the total number of coronavirus patients in Sindh has reached 274,196 while 4,559 people have died so far.
In Punjab, the total number of COVID-19 patients is 276,535 and 7,664 people have died so far due to the virus. While the total number of patients in Balochistan is 21,127 and the death toll has reached 225.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has recorded a total of 108,462 virus patients, with 2,953 deaths, whereas in Azad Kashmir 15,873 people have been infected with the virus and 446 people have died.
In Islamabad, 70,984 people have been infected so far from the virus, whereas 12,704 deaths have been reported since outbreak.
Whereas Gilgit-Baltistan recorded 5,204 cases and 104 deaths so far due to the coronavirus.
