ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s tally of coronavirus cases has jumped above 3,000including 18 patients declared critical after the confirmation of 179 newinfections during the last 24 hours.
The country has witnessed an increase in COVID-19 cases as the currentnumber of infections reached to 3,059 on Sunday evening.
Some 1,319 confirmed cases are from Punjab, 881 in Sindh out of the overallfigure of COVID-19 patients across the country. 372 patients are kept underisolation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 206 in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), 189 inBalochistan, 78 in federal capital Islamabad and 14 in Azad Jammu andKashmir (AJK).
According to the national dashboard on coronavirus pandemic, 170 patientshave recovered from the disease so far, whereas, 45 patients lost theirlives and 18 remained in critical condition.
Punjab
In Punjab, novel coronavirus appears to be rapidly spreading among inmatesin Camp Jail as 26 more prisoners were diagnosed with the contagion today.
Punjab’s Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department confirmed the numberof inmates testing positive for COVID-19 in the Camp Jail has reached 29.
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Moreover, Sindh reported 51 new cases of COVID-19 pandemic in differentparts of the province during the last 24 hours, raising the tally of suchpatients to 881.
Sindh
Sindh health minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho confirmed that as many as 51more cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in Sindh, of them 37 fromKarachi, four from Hyderabad, two from Noushehroferoz and one each fromSukkur and Sajawal.
She maintained that at least 13 people were affected by the pandemic inLarkana thus far. The minister said that 58 people have recovered fromcoronavirus in the province.
