Policemen wearing facemasks stand guard at a checkpoint beside the Grand Faisal Mosque during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad on March 27, 2020. / AFP / Aamir QURESHI
Islamabad, Pakistan - Federal health authorities in Pakistan report the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 is increasing, raising the country's total number of confirmed patients to 1,495.
They also report another death of a man in the country's commercial hub, Karachi, increasing the death toll to 12.
A breakout shows the largest Punjab province has 557 patients, and southern Sindh province has 469. Southwestern Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has 133, and Khyber Pakhtukhwa, which borders Afghanistan, has 188.
The Gilgit Baltistan region has 107 patients, while the federal capital, Islamabad, has 39. Pakistan controlled Kashmir has two confirmed cases.
The count shows there is increase of 87 cases, with seven of the patients stated to be in critical condition.
