With the latest figure, the death toll from the pandemic has risen to 9,213 while the tally of infections has surged to 630,277, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a press release on Saturday.
Meanwhile, 24,548 samples were tested in 227 labs across the country in the past 24 hours. A total of 47,52,661 samples have been tested in the country so far.Also, 2,364 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the same period, raising the total number of recoveries to 549,775 with an 87.23% recovery rate.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 87.23 percent recovered, while 1.46 percent died.