More than 2,100 new Coronavirus cases reported, 85 died in last 24 hours.

ISLAMABAD -- The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases in Pakistan on Friday reached 38,511 with 2,152 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 1,824 people recovered from coronavirus during last 24 hours.

85 corona patients, 77 of whom were under treatment in hospital and eight in their homes or quarantines died 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 Punjab followed by the Sindh. It added that during last 24 hours that out of the total 85 deaths 53 patients were on ventilators.

No COVID-19 affected person was on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) while 330 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in Pakistan during this time span.

Maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Multan 52 percent, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) 39 percent, Peshawar 30 percent and Lahore 37 percent.

The Oxygen beds (oxygen providing facility other than ventilator as per patient's medical requirement) were also occupied in four major areas as in ICT 34 percent, Abbottabad 34 percent, Peshawar 62 percent and Multan 42 percent.

Some 39,435 tests were conducted across the country on Thursday, including 12,646 in Sindh, 15,195 in Punjab, 5,855 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 4,092 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 555 in Balochistan, 370 in GB, and 722 in AJK.

Around 418,958 people have recovered from the disease so far across the...