Pakistan Has Reported 514 New Cases Of The COVID-19 In The Last 24 Hours, Taking The Total Number Of Cases In The Country To 7,993 With 159 Deaths, According To Official Data Released On Sunday.
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| Updated on: 19 Apr 2020, 03:19:48 PM
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has allowed 333 additional pharmaceutical firms to manufacture sanitisers. (Photo Credit: News Nation Photo)
Islamabad:
Pakistan has reported 514 new circumstances of the COVID-19 all via the closing 24 hours, taking the general number of circumstances all via the nation to 7,993 with 159 deaths, based mostly on official data launched on Sunday. The Ministry of National Health Services talked regarding the model new circumstances had been reported largely from Punjab and Sindh provinces and included 16 deaths all via the closing 24 hours. “Punjab reported 3,649 patients, Sindh 2,355, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 1,137, Balochistan 376, Gilgit-Baltistan 257, Islamabad 171 and Pakistan occupied Kashmir 48 patients,” the data, which is on the ministry’s web page, talked about.
As of now, Pakistan has carried out 98,522 checks, along with 7,847 over the previous 24 hours. So far 1,868 victims have recovered, the ministry talked about. National Disaster Management Authority chief Lt Gen Muhammad Afzal talked about they may distribute 100,000 testing kits in all the provinces by Monday to further improve testing ratio. Afzal talked about 50 laboratories had been working all by the use of the nation and conducing over 6,000 checks ceaselessly.
To improve the testing facilities all via the nation, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has allowed 333 additional pharmaceutical firms to manufacture sanitisers, based mostly on an official assertion. Meanwhile, Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad talked about that the railways would arrange a selected quarantine put collectively comprising of 30 coaches in Balochistan. According to authorities, Pakistan would moreover allow some abroad airways to convey as quickly as further about 40,000 Pakistani nationals stranded abroad.
Those stranded all via the US must go to Doha by Qatar Airways and Pakistan authorities was making specific preparations to fly them dwelling,? Zulfi Bukhari, nation’s advisor on Overseas Pakistanis, talked about. Globally, 160,721 people have died and over 2.three million people have been contaminated by the coronavirus, based mostly on data maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
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First Published : 19 Apr 2020, 03:19:48 PM
