Country reports 100 plus virus deaths for 4th straight day
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday morning reported 110 more Coronavirus deaths, the fourth consecutive day the country reported more than a hundred fatalities.
According to the officials, 64,481 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours out of which 5,364 came back positive. The total number of cases in the country so far is 745,182 and the death toll is 15,982. The national positivity rate is 8.3 percent. Punjab recorded the highest number of deaths during the last 24 hours with 62 fatalities, followed by KP which reported 35 fatalities. During the last 24 hours, Punjab reported 2,732 cases and 62 deaths, KP 1,129 cases and 35 deaths, Sindh 653 cases and 8 deaths, Islamabad 599 cases and 1 death, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 159 cases and 3 deaths, Balochistan 82 cases and 1 death, while Gilgit-Baltistan reported 10 such cases.
The country also reported 4,123 Covid-19 recoveries during the past 24 hours, according to the portal for tracking the spread of the disease in the country. The total has risen to 650,775 while the recovery rate is 87.3 percent. According to the NCOC, total active Covid-19 cases across the country were reported to be 78,425.