Islamabad: Pakistan’s death toll due to COVID-19 crossed the 16,000-mark on Saturday as the country witnessed 112 mortalities in a period of twenty-four hours.
The total fatalities in the country have reached 16,094 making Saturday the fifth straight day with more-than-100 deaths.
Earlier, in the current week, 118 deaths were reported on Tuesday, 124 on Wednesday and 110 each on Thursday and Friday.
According to the official portal of the Ministry of the National Health Services, 4,976 new cases were reported in the country after 65,279 tests during the last one day taking the total number of cases to 750,158.
There are 79,108 active cases in the country while the positivity rate remained 7.62 per cent in the country, the official data further reveals.