Pakistan: Total COVID-19 cases stands at 14788
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan has witnessed a major jump in the number of COVID-19 deaths as the figure now stands at 14,788, media reports said.
The country has recorded 322 deaths.
While 341 of the 751 new cases of novel coronavirus were detected in Sindh in a single day, data of the Ministry of National Health Services showed on Tuesday that the number of tests had come down in all the provinces, except Sindh, Dawn News.
Nearly 400 healthcare workers have contracted coronavirus in Pakistan, and five have died, states a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Geo news reported.
The daily situation report, generated by the WHO on Monday, with information gathered from the ministry of national health services, records 376 healthcare professionals who have been sickened with the novel coronavirus to date. The majority, 181 are doctors and 55 are nurses, the news report said.
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