The number of coronavirus cases (COVID-19) in Pakistan has crossed 72,000 on Monday. The country reported about 52,000 cases of coronavirus in May. In the last 24 hours, 2,964 new cases of corona infection were reported and 60 people died. The health department of the country has given information about this. With this, the number of patients has reached 72,460 and 1,543 people have died so far. At the same time, 26,083 patients have been cured. There have been total of 5,61,136 tests done in the country so far. There have been 14,398 tests in the last 24 hours.
According to the Pakistan Health Ministry, 28,245 cases have been reported in Sindh, 26,240 in Punjab, 10,027 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 4,393 in Balochistan, 2,589 in Islamabad, 711 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 255 cases have been reported in Ghulam Kashmir (PoK). Pakistan reported about 52,000 cases of coronavirus in May, according to PTI. During this period, the number of patients increased from 17,699 to 69,474. The death toll increased from 1,483 to 408.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair an important meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Monday, which is expected to set a future strategy to deal with the growing cases of coronavirus in the country. Various options including lockdown will be discussed at the meeting, which was relaxed about two weeks ago.
