745 coronavirus patients stable, showing signs of recovery: Dr Mirza.

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Dr Zafar Mirza on Sunday said that 745 confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to various hospitals across the country were stable and showing signs of recovery.

"They were in mild to moderate condition and soon they will be discharged from the hospitals," Dr Mirza said in a routine televised media briefing on prevailing coronavirus situation in the country.

He said that out of total 756 hospitalised, only 11 patients were in critical condition and they were being treated at isolation rooms, while some of them were on ventilators.

He said that 294 patients were hospitalised in Sindh, 247 in Punjab, 60 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 130 in Balochistan, 12 in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), two in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and 11 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).

He said the coronavirus caseload in Pakistan had 1,562 with addition of 121 new cases during the last 24 hours. He added 28 patients had been recovered completely while total 13 deaths had been reported from the disease so far, included five from Punjab, four from KP, two from Sindh, one each from Balochistan and GB. The toll rose to 17 later in the day.

Dr Mirza said that total 8,066 people were living in different quarantine in provinces out of which PCR test of 4,365 people had been conducted with corona positive ratio of 20 percent, as 869 people had COVID-19 positive.

He added that in total 1,527 confirmed corona patients, 857 patients (58%) had travel history of Iran, 191 patients (13%) had travel history of other countries and 420 patients (29%) had received virus in local transmission.

He said that during last 24 hours total 1,006 suspected cases were registered while total suspected cases were 3,324 out of which 1526 were confirmed patients...