Active Covid-19 cases surge past 61,000; 43 more die.

Pakistan recorded 4,323 new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours, taking the country's Covid-19 tally to 692,231, said the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday.

According to the NCOC, the country's death toll climbed to 14,821 after 43 people succumbed to the deadly disease during the last 24 hours. The NCOC said that total active Covid-19 cases across the country are 61,450.

During the period of a day, the total count of active cases was recorded at 61,450 and the positivity rate stood at 9.96 per cent. The health facilities across the country conducted 43,362 coronavirus detection tests, taking the total number of Covid-19 tests to 10,446,697 since the first case was reported. Out of 43,362 Covid-19 tests, 8,797 were conducted in Sindh, 17,994 in Punjab, 8,687 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 5,654 in Islamabad, 885 in Balochistan, 355 in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and 990 tests were conducted in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

Out of the total 14,821 reported deaths, there had been about 4,509 deaths in Sindh, 6587 in Punjab, 2,457 in KP, 583 in Islamabad, 211 in Balochistan, 103 in GB and 371 deaths have been reported from AJK.

The NCOC also reported that a total of 10,446,697 tests had been conducted since the outbreak of the virus. There are about 631 hospitals with Covid-19 facilities with more than 4,000 patients admitted across the country, it added.

According to the statistics, 19 patients were declared critical, adding to the total number of patients suffering from sensitive health conditions up to 3,587. Meanwhile, 2,902 patients recovered from the deadly disease in a day taking total recoveries to 615,960.

The highest number of ventilators occupied in the country was found to be in Multan with 70.4 per cent occupancy, followed by Lahore at 67.2 per cent, Gujranwala at 60 per cent and Islamabad at 57.7 per cent. The NCOC further reported that the highest number of oxygen bed occupancy in the country was in Swat at 100 per cent followed by Gujranwala at 85 per cent, Peshawar at 84 per cent and Gujrat at 74 per...