ISLAMABAD: The total active COVID-19 cases in Pakistan on Tuesday were recorded 8,588 as 467 more people tested positive for the deadly virus during the last 24 hours.
Six corona patients, who were under treatment in hospital died on Monday, according to the latest update issued by the National command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
No COVID affected person was on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Balochistan, while 86 ventilators elsewhere in Pakistan, out of 1,912 allocated for COVID-19 patients, were occupied.
Some 28,280 tests were conducted across the country on Monday, including 7,993 in Sindh, 11,009 in Punjab, 3,771 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 4,000 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 911 in Balochistan, 385 in Gilgit Baltistan (GB), and 211 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 315,727 cases were detected so far, including AJK 2,874, Balochistan 15,420, GB 3,857, ICT 16,845, KP 38,105, Punjab 100,033 and Sindh 138,593.
