ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has reported less than 2,000 coronavirus cases for the first time since July 23, when the country recorded 1,841 infections. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the country reported 1897 fresh cases on Tuesday morning. The new 1,897 cases over the past 24 hours have taken the total number of cases recorded to 1,227,905. Meanwhile, 81 new coronavirus-related fatalities have raised the Covid-19 death toll to 27,327. The positivity rate is 4.10 percent. According to the breakdown of Covid-19 cases and deaths reported during the last 24 hours, Punjab reported 880 cases and 42 deaths, Sindh 661 cases and 19 deaths, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 201 cases and 14 deaths, Islamabad 106 cases and 2 deaths, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 34 cases and 4 deaths, Gilgit-Baltistan 12 cases, Balochistan 3 cases.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s infection tally has risen to 171,589 and death toll has increased to 5,426 while Baluchistan’s infection tally has risen to 32,772 after the detection of three new cases in the province. No coronavirus-related fatalities have been recorded in the province over the past 24 hours and the death toll remains 344.
Punjab’s Covid tally now stands at 423,670 and death toll has reached 12,449. Meanwhile, Pakistan has recorded 2,618 Covid-19 recoveries over the past 24 hours, according to the government’s portal for tracking the spread of the disease. The country has reported a total of 1,137,656 recoveries so far, and the recovery rate is 92.7 percent, according to the NCOC.