Pakistan: 18 cops in Sindh test COVID-19 positive
Islamabad: 18 more policemen in Pakistan's Sindh region have tested COVID-19 positive, media reports said on Sunday.
With the fresh cases, 6,501 policemen in the region have now tested COVID-19 positive.
Of these, 6,444 policemen have recovered while 31 are currently receiving treatment, a spokesperson for the Sindh Police said in a statement as quoted by Dawn News.
He added that 26 policemen had succumbed to the virus so far.
Pakistan has recorded 21633 COVID-19 deaths so far.
The country has witnessed several waves of COVID-19 pandemic so far.
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