COVID-19 claims 46 lives, over 1,920 new Coronavirus cases reported.

ISLAMABAD -- The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases in Pakistan on Monday reached to 34,986 with 1,920 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 1,589 people recovered from the coronavirus during the last 24 hours.

Forty Six coronavirus patients, 39 of whom were under treatment in hospital and Seven were in their respective homes or quarantines died on Sunday, 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 46 deaths during the last 24 hours 30 patients died on ventilators.

No COVID-19 affected person was on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit Baltistan (GB) and Balochistan while 325 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in Pakistan.

The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Multan 49 percent, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) 31 percent, Bahawalpur 55 percent and Lahore 36 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 44 percent, Multan 38 percent, Karachi 40 percent and Rawalpindi 26 percent.

Some 37,949 tests were conducted across the country on Sunday including 10,945 in Sindh, 15,195 in Punjab, 6,071 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 4,478 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 543 in Balochistan, 376 in GB and 341 in AJK.

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