COVID-19 claims 32 lives, infects 1,541 more people.

ISLAMABAD -- The national tally on Friday of total active COVID-19 cases recorded 22,285 with 1,541 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 2,502 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.

Thirty two corona patients have died during past 24 hours, 28 of them were under treatment in hospital and three in their respective quarantines and homes on Thursday, 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 the Punjab followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Out of the total 32 deaths, 16 people died, were under treatment, on ventilators.

The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Multan 20 percent, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) 31 percent, Peshawar 19 percent and Lahore 36 percent.

The maximum Oxygen beds (alternate oxygen providing facility other than ventilator administered as per medical requirement of COVID patient) was also occupied in Four major areas of Gujrat 61 percent, Peshawar 34 percent, Multan 25 percent, and Lahore 23 percent.

Around 216 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in the country while no COVID affected person was on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit Baltistan (GB) and Balochistan.

Some 41,849 tests were conducted across the country on Thursday, including 8,709 in Sindh, 18,079 in Punjab, 6,995 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 6,252 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 802 in Balochistan, 348 in GB, and 664 in AJK.

Around 542,393 people have recovered from the...