COVID-19 claims 43 deaths, over 2,521 new Coronavirus cases reported.

ISLAMABAD -- The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases in Pakistan on Sunday reached to 34,701 with 2,521 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 1,540 people recovered from the coronavirus during the last 24 hours.

Forty Three coronavirus patients,40 of whom were under treatment in hospital and Three were in their respective homes or quarantines died on Saturday, 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 43 deaths during the last 24 hours 22 patients were died on ventilators.

No COVID-19 affected person was on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Balochistan while 334 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in Pakistan.

The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Multan 49 percent, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) 35 percent, Bahawalpur 55 percent and Lahore 35 percent.

The maximum Oxygen beds (alternate oxygen providing facility other than ventilator administered as per medical requirement of COVID-19 patient) was also occupied in Four major areas of Peshawar 45 percent, Multan 38 percent, Karachi 39 percent and Rawalpindi 26 percent.

Some 41,191 tests were conducted across the country on Saturday including 13,936 in Sindh, 14,186 in Punjab, 6,242 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 5,477 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 688 in Balochistan, 372 in GB and 290 in AJK.

Around 473,639 people have been recovered from the...