KARACHI: As many as 25 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 830 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 22,452so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.

According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Tuesday, a total of 964,490 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 341,275 were in Sindh, 347,014 in Punjab, 27,445 in Balochistan, 138,616 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 83,048 in Islamabad, 6,504 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 20,588 in Azad Kashmir. However, 908,648 patients have recovered from the disease so far.