Balochistan sees drop in active COVID-19 cases: Health department

Active cases of COVID-19 in Balochistan have reached to its lowest level to 618, the provincial health department said in a report on Monday.

As per details, about 233 patients have recovered yesterday while the ratio of the active COVID-19 cases has dropped to four percent.

The tally of total active cases has been 618 in the province, according to the report.

So far, 15,399 cases of novel coronavirus have been reported in the biggest province of the country and about 14,635 patients have recovered to health, the report said.

In educational institutions, 593 tests conducted to diagnose coronavirus yesterday with zero detection of cases, the health department said in its report.

Overall 146 patients have died of novel coronavirus in the province till now, the health department confirmed.

The novel coronavirus claimed four more lives during the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the disease to 6,517.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 29,565 samples were tested for Covid-19 during this period, out of which 644 were declared positive. The number of infections across the country has reached 315,260 with the addition of the new cases.