Covid-19 death toll hits 19,000, positivity rate reduces to 7.93pc

ISLAMABAD: Another 113 people lost their lives to coronavirus whereas 3,084 fresh cases were detected during the last 24 hours, showed the statistics released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday.

After the addition of 113 new deaths, the toll climbed up to 19,106 while the number of confirmed cases stood at 864,557 after adding 3,084 new ones.

During the past 24 hours, 4,387 patients have recovered from the virus while the total recoveries stood at 766,492. As of Tuesday, the total count of active cases was recorded at 78,959, while the positivity rate was dropped to 7.93 percent.

As many as 293,426 coronavirus cases have so far been confirmed in Sindh, 320,851 in Punjab, 124,979 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 78,382 in Islamabad, 23,534 in Balochistan, 17,984 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and 5,401 in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Moreover, 9,125 individuals have so far lost their lives to the pandemic in Punjab, 4,753 in Sindh, 3,644 in KP, 716 in Islamabad, 508 in AJK, 253 in Balochistan and 107 in GB.

The health authorities conducted 38,883 coronavirus detection tests, taking the total number of Covid-19 tests to 12,267,31 since the first case was reported.

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