New Delhi (NVI): The total number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has reached 7,717, while 144 people have died of the disease so far, according to Geo news.
Nearly half of the total confirmed cases are from Punjab province alone, at 3,465.
Looking at the breakdown of cases, the Sindh province has reported 2,355 cases while Balochistan has 359 cases so far. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has 1,077 cases, Islamabad 163, Gilgit Baltistan 250 and 48 in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) today revealed that around 62 per cent of Pakistan’s total confirmed coronavirus cases are locally transmitted.
According to the data released by the NCOC, the remaining 38 per cent of the cases recorded in the country are of those with a foreign travel history.
Social distancing is described as the best measure to avoid the spread of coronavirus.
No new cases of recovery were reported in the last 24 hours. So far, around 1,648 COVID-19 patients have recovered from the virus in the country.
