ISLAMABAD   -   Pakistan has recorded 68 more coronavirus deaths and 2,928 infections in a single day, showed the data released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Friday. After the addition of 68 new deaths, the overall toll has now surged to 27,072 whereas the number of total infections stood at 1,218,749 after addition of 2928 fresh cases. On Thursday, a total of 57,626 tests were conducted throughout Pakistan whereas the positivity ratio stood at 5.08 percent. The number of patients in criticaAl care was 4,960. As many as 13,716 patients have recovered from the virus whereas the total recoveries stood at 1,125,942. As of Friday, the total count of active cases in the country was recorded at 65,725. The number of active coronavirus cases continued to decline as Pakistan reported less than 70,000 active cases for the first time since July 31. Those new cases were outpaced by 13,716 recoveries in the last 24 hours, pulling down active cases to 65,725. The number of active cases has fallen consistently over the last four days. As of now, some 1,125,952 patients have recovered since the pandemic started.   As many as 448,658 coronavirus cases have so far been confirmed in Sindh, 419,423 in Punjab, 170,391 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 103,720 in Islamabad, 32,707 in Balochistan, 33,628 in Azad Kashmir and 10,222 in Gilgit-Baltistan. Moreover, 12,345 individuals have lost their lives to the pandemic in Punjab so far, 7,224 in Sindh, 5,354 in KP, 895 in Islamabad, 728 in Azad Kashmir, 344 in Balochistan and 182 in Gilgit-Baltistan. Pakistan has administered at least 70,402,987 doses of Covid vaccines so far.