KARACHI: Three new COVID-19 deaths confirmed in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the toll of fatalities due to virus reaches 15.
The Sindh Health Department confirmed two new coronavirus deaths in Karachi on Sunday, taking the provincial death toll to three and the national death toll to 15.
Health Minister Sindh, Dr Azra Pechuho said both patients died on Saturday night. In both cases, the patients had pneumonia and COVID-19. The two persons who died of coronavirus were 83 and 70 years old.
Sindh’s first coronavirus death was also reported in Karachi. The patient was a 77-year-old male who also had cancer.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa also confirmed a new death in Abbottabad that took the provincial death toll to 5. the victim was hailing from Tableegi Jamat and his family were put under quarantine. The family members of the victim are without tests and no government functionary came to take the tests of the family members.
According to province-wise break up of the total deaths released by Health Authorities at 2:00pm, March 29, is as follows:
Total deaths 15, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 5, Punjab 5, Sindh, 3, Balochistan 1 and Gilgit-Baltistan 1,
According to figure released at 2,00 pm Sunday, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 1,542 after new cases were reported across the country.
Total confirmed cases 1,542, Punjab 570, Sindh 481, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 188, Balochistan 138, Islamabad Capital Territory 43, Gilgit-Baltistan 116 and AJK 6.
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