COVID-19 claims 75 lives, infects 1,388 more people.

ISLAMABAD -- The national tally on Wednesday of total active COVID-19 cases recorded 16,648 with 1,163 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 1,388 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.

Seventy-five corona patients have died during past 24 hours, 70 of them were under treatment in hospitals and five in their respective quarantines and homes on Tuesday, according to the latest update issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).

Out of the total 75 deaths, 27 people had died under treatment on ventilators.

During the last 24 hours most of the deaths had occurred in the Punjab followed by Sindh.

The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Multan 20 percent, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) 30 percent, Peshawar 15 percent and Lahore 35 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 94 percent, Peshawar 37 percent, Lahore 25 percent and Multan 25 percent.

Around 220 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 32,945 tests were conducted across the country on Tuesday, including 7,315 in Sindh, 14,339 in Punjab, 6,062 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 3,934 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 420 in Balochistan, 333 in GB, and 542 in...