Pakistan reports 514 new cases

Islamabad: Pakistan has reported 514 new cases of the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases in the country to 7,993 with 159 deaths, according to official data released on Sunday.
The Ministry of National Health Services said that the new COVID-19 cases were reported mostly from Punjab and Sindh provinces and included 16 deaths in the last 24 hours.
“Punjab reported 3,649 patients, Sindh 2,355, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 1,137, Balochistan 376, Gilgit-Baltistan 257, Islamabad 171 and Pakistan occupied Kashmir 48 patients,” the data, which is on the ministry’s website, said.
As of now, Pakistan has conducted 98,522 tests, including 7,847 during the last 24 hours. So far 1,868 patients have recovered, the ministry said.
According to authorities, Pakistan would allow some foreign airlines to bring back about 40,000 Pakistani nationals stranded abroad.
“Those stranded in the US should go to Doha by Qatar Airways and Pakistan government was making special arrangements to fly them home,” Zulfi Bukhari, country’s advisor on Overseas Pakistanis, said. (PTI)