ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 national tally has reached 110,065 cases the government has failed to make functional Pak Nigehbaan App to facilitate the coronavirus patients in finding availability of hospital beds located across the country in 1,110 health facilities.

So far no link of the Pak Nigehbaan App is available neither on Google Play Store nor on Google Crome as a result people across the country are facing serious problems in acquiring information about available beds in hospitals, and many people reportedly lost their lives, while moving from one health facility to another, to find ventilator.

As of now, total nation-wide confirmed cases have reached 110,586 mark of which 41,303 cases are in Sindh, Punjab has 40,819 cases, 14,527 cases in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 6,788 cases in Balochistan, 5,785 cases in the Islamabad Capital Territory, 952 cases in the Gilgit-Baltistan, and 412 cases in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

The countrywide coronavirus deaths have reached 2,122 of which 683 are from Punjab, 696 Sindh, 610 Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 56 Balochistan, Islamabad 52, Gilgit-Baltistan 14, and nine in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

The government on Friday June 5, 2020 announced that the National Command and Operation Centre (NOOC) has launched the Pak Nighban app in a bid to give timely and proper information to the Covid-19 patients especially about the availability of ventilators.

Various people have complained that they could not find Pak Nighban app on Google app store, and requested help in finding the app, so that they can take benefit of the app to avert any unwanted situation in the wake of severity of the Covid-19 disease. According to the government's announcement the app has information about a total of 1,110 hospitals across Pakistan.

It will provide details of the number of beds, ventilators and all other details of these hospitals. It will also have information on emergency respondents and healthcare officials available at these hospitals.

In an emergency situation, people can easily check the app and go to the hospital that has the facilities available at that time.

According to the NCOC, this will help save lives in cases of emergency.

Officials told Business Recorder that following the spike in Covid19 cases after Eidul Fitr, at present in Sindh, Punjab and federal capital hospitals have reached their maximum capacities leading to difficulties for the patients.

They said that on a daily basis both the provinces are reporting thousands of cases.

Sindh's coronavirus tally has crossed 41,000 after 1,748 new cases were confirmed during last 24 hours.

According to Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, 6,995 tests were conducted out of which 1,748 came back positive, taking the provincial tally to 41,303.

"This means 25 per cent of the total tests came back positive, which is very high," he said.

He added that 17 more people lost their lives to the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the total fatalities to 696.

The chief minister said that 466 patients are in critical condition, while 71 are on ventilators.

The number of recoveries has risen to 19,896, he added.

Punjab records highest single-day death toll of any province at 58 as the province has reported an additional 1,916 new Covid-19 cases, according to the national database, taking the provincial tally to 40,819.

Punjab has also recorded the highest single-day death toll of any province after 58 more people died from the virus in the last 24 hours.

This has taken the province's total fatalities to 773.

Balochistan reports 272 new cases and four more deaths due to coronavirus, taking the provincial tally to 6,788 cases, according to the Balochistan Health Department.

The province also reported four deaths during the last 24 hours, with its toll of confirmed deaths from the virus rising to 58.

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has reported 521 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the provincial tally to 14,527, according to the health department.

The province's death toll from the virus rose to 610 with 23 more deaths reported.

Islamabad has reported 456 new coronavirus cases, taking its total to 5,785, according to the government's Covid-19 portal.

Gilgit-Baltistan has reported 20 new cases, while Azad Jammu and Kashmir has confirmed 16, taking their tallies to 952 and 412, respectively.

The GB and the AJK have also recorded one death each, taking their total fatalities to 14 and nine, while Islamabad has not reported any additional deaths from the virus.