Pakistan coronavirus death toll nears 400 and 17,500 cases

Pakistan coronavirus death toll has surged to 391 after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh reported 30 more deaths today although all these are not from the last 24 hours. The number of cases have also taken a surge to 17,439 with over 900 cases being reported since last night.

Pakistan Death Toll — Pakistan coronavirus death toll nears 400 and 17,500 cases.

Khyber Pakthunkhwa reported gave their report for 30 April a little late as they made adjustments to their total for previous dates between 9 April to 23 April. The report that was given by Finance and Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra added 24 fatalities to the provincial total bringing it all the way up 146.

However, Jhagra mentioned that there were only nine fatalities during the last 24 hours while 15 of them were added to the previous tally.

2. 15 deaths have been added to our previously reported tally; these occurred on dates between April 9-23 (shown in slides 1a and 1b).
These were previously suspect cases or unreported cases now confirmed after full verification; these take the final provincial death tally 146. pic.twitter.com/TDZKMiqo1k
— Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra (@Jhagra) April 30, 2020

More deaths were reported by the Twitter handle of the Chief Minister House Sindh adding six more fatalities to the provincial total bringing it all the way up to 118. The update also included over 600 new cases over the last 24 hours.

* آج 6 مریض کورونا کے خلاف جنگ ہار کر زندگی کی بازی ہار گئے، وزیراعلیٰ سندھ سید مراد علی شاہ

* سندھ میں کل کورونا کے باعث مرنے والوں کی تعداد 118 ہے، وزیراعلیٰ سندھ سید مراد علی شاہ
— Sindh Chief Minister House (@SindhCMHouse) May 1, 2020

Here is a province wise breakdown of coronavirus cases in Pakistan as of 5:00pm on 1 May 2020.

Coronavirus cases in Pakistan (Province Breakdown)

Province	Cases	Deaths
Sindh	6675	112
Punjab	6340	106
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	2627	122
Balochistan	1049	14
Islamabad	343	4
Gilgit Baltistan	339	3
AJK	66
TOTAL	17439	391