ISLAMABAD, Aug 24 (APP):Pakistan recorded nine deaths due to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, all of which were reported from Sindh, ,while no coronavirus patient was on ventilator in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) ,and Balochistan.
National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday issued latest statistics of COVID-19 deaths, positive cases and recovered patients.
All the nine patients, who lost their lives due to COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, were in hospitals till August 23. Almost 115 ventilators were occupied across the country out of 1920 ventilators allocated for COVID-19,it was learnt.
During the last 24 hours, 496 people tested coronavirus positive, whereas the total active coronavirus patients in Pakistan were 10,188 on August 24.
As many as 23,655 tests were conducted on August 23 across the country : 9,027 in Sindh, 8,549 in Punjab, 2508 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) 2,843, Balochistan 229, Gilgit Baltistan (GB) 302, in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) 97 tests were done.
Around 276,829 patients have recovered so far across the country, showing a significant 93.8 percent recovery.
Since the pandemic broke out a total of 293,261 cases were detected so far including 2254 in AJK, 12527 in Balochistan , whereas GB had 2682 cases, ICT 15515, KP 35766, Punjab 96233, and Sindh had 128284 cases so far.
Since the contagion spread across the country around 6244 deaths were recorded: In Sindh 2367 people died.
In Punjab 2188 lost lives, and in KP 1248 patients died.
However, in ICT 175 deaths were recorded, in Balochistan 141, in GB 64 ,whereas least deaths occurred in AJK which were 61.
After tireless efforts by the government and stakeholders since the first coronavirus case was reported in the country a total of 2,463,513 tests have been conducted so far. Around 735 hospitals were equipped with COVID-19 facilities which took care of 1,163 patients admitted across the country.