3,179 new Coronavirus cases reported; 87 deaths in past 24 hours.

ISLAMABAD -- The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases in Pakistan on Saturday reached 40,922 with 3,179 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 4,649 people recovered from the Coronavirus during the last 24 hours.

Eighty seven corona patients, 74 of whom were under treatment in hospital and 13 in their respective homes or quarantines died on Friday, according to the latest update issued by the National command and Operation Centre (NCOC).

During the last 24 hours most of the deaths had occurred in Punjab followed by the Sindh.

It added that out of the total 87 deaths during last 24 hours, 45 patients died on ventilators.

No COVID affected person was on ventilator in Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) while 279 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in Pakistan.

The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Multan, 46 percent, ICT 41 percent, Peshawar 21 percent and Lahore 34 percent.

The Oxygen beds (oxygen providing facility other than ventilator as per patient's medical requirement) were also occupied in four major areas as in Rawalpindi 40 percent, Abbottabad 39 percent, Peshawar59 percent and ICT 42 percent.

Some 48,075 tests were conducted across the country on Friday, including 20,681 in Sindh, 15,133 in Punjab, 5,213 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 5,749 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 337 in Balochistan, 373 in GB, and 589 in AJK.

Around 404,501 people have recovered from the disease so far...