KARACHI: As many as 21 more patients died of coronavirus in Pakistan during the last 24 hours while 2,607 new virus cases emerged. The country-wide death toll from the virus has surged to 22,781 so far since the outbreak of the disease in February.

According to a Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination report issued on Sunday, a total of 989,275 people have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease in the country since its outbreak in February 2020, out of which 355,462 were in Sindh, 350,259 in Punjab, 29,080 in Balochistan, 140,560 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 84,563 in Islamabad, 7,362 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 21,989 in Azad Kashmir. However, 919,163 patients have recovered from the disease so far.