Islamabad: Pakistan added 55 new deaths due to COVID-19, taking the total death toll due to the disease to cross 10,000-mark.
The current death toll due to the virus now stands at 10,047.
The National Command and Operation Center data reads that 2,155 people tested COVID-19 positive during the last 24 hours after tests of 36,390 people, reports Geo News.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in the country now stands at 37,080.
Analysis done by Geo.tv showed a 29% increase in COVID-19 deaths from December 13 to 20 when the virus claimed 560 lives compared to 434 deaths reported in seven days prior.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's first three cases of the new coronavirus strain were reported a day earlier in Karachi.
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