Pakistan confirms 1,277 new COVID-19 cases

ISLAMABAD, July 2– Pakistan on Thursday reported 1,277 new COVID-19 cases, the National Command and Operation Center said on Friday. The NCOC, a department spearheading Pakistan’s campaign against the pandemic, said that the country’s number of overall confirmed cases rose to 959,658, including 905,430 recoveries. Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is the…

ISLAMABAD, July 2 (Xinhua) — Pakistan on Thursday reported 1,277 new COVID-19 cases, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Friday.

The NCOC, a department spearheading Pakistan’s campaign against the pandemic, said that the country’s number of overall confirmed cases rose to 959,658, including 905,430 recoveries.

There are currently 31,910 active cases, with 1,863 of them being in critical condition.

According to the NCOC, 24 more deaths were reported on Thursday, raising the death toll to 22,345.

Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is the worst-hit region with 346,454 infections and 10,761 deaths, followed by the southern Sindh province which reported 338,387 cases and 5,478 deaths.

The NCOC said on its website that Pakistan has administered a total of 16,356,499 COVID-19 vaccine doses across the country, with 3,121,648 people fully vaccinated so far. Enditem