Death toll soars to six as tally rises to 875 across country

As government has geared up its efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, the death toll from novel coronavirus in the country rose to six on Monday, while the total number of positive cases has risen to 875 across the country. According to official figures, 99 new cases were reported during the last 24 hours and three persons died.
The number of case in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) jumped to 15, Punjab 242, Sindh 394, Balochistan 110, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 38, Gilgit-Baltistan 71, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir 1. Six patients have recovered so far, while six have died due to the virus.
Five Tableeghi Jamaat members were tested positive for coronavirus in Islamabad on Monday. According to the police, five more members of Tableeghi Jamaat in Islamabad's Bhara Kahu area have tested positive for coronavirus. ASP Hamza Amanullah of the ICT Police said that a group of 13 people, including six foreigners, were sitting in tableegh in Kot Hathial.
He said that one of the foreigners had tested positive for coronavirus earlier. "We tested five more people from the group, and the results came back positive... six more people from the group are also being tested," Amanullah added. Sindh remains the worst affected with a total of 394 cases.
In Karachi alone, the numbers of cases are 130, with the majority said to be cases of local transmission. In Punjab, according to Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, there are 246 coronavirus cases so far.
"As of now, we have 225 confirmed cases of COVID-19. DGK quarantine 175, Lahore 34, Gujrat 4, Gujranwala 4, Jhelum 3, Rawalpindi 2, Multan 2 and Sargodha has 1 patient. We are suspending Metro Bus Service, temporarily, and disinfecting all buses," he tweeted.
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed to 14,759 on Monday, as per media reports. The reports show that there have now been 341,365 confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, since the virus emerged in Wuhan, China, last December.
The number of people recovered from the disease is also steadily increasing, with the latest figures bringing the tally to 98,866. Italy leads the global death count with 5,476 fatalities, followed by China (3,274), Spain (1,813), Iran (1,685), France (676), and the US (471).
China still has the highest number of cases (81,454), followed by Italy (59,138), the US (35,224), Spain (29,909), Germany (24,873), and Iran (21,638). The COVID-19 outbreak has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Johns Hopkins University data shows the virus has now spread to 167 countries and regions.
While the crisis shows no signs of abating immediately, the slowdown in transmission witnessed in China over recent weeks has been hailed as a positive indicator. On Monday, China's National Health Commission said there were no new indigenous cases reported across the country, while there were no new infections in Wuhan city, which was the epicenter of the outbreak, for the fifth consecutive day.