Coronavirus cases in Pakistan – Update [29 May 2020]

The total number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan have surged to 66,358 while the country’s death toll has reached 1,394. There were 2,735 new cases reported on Friday (29 May 2020) along with 82 more fatalities across the country.

Sindh Health and Population Welfare Department reported 31 more fatalities in their daily coronavirus update. This brings the provincial death toll to 427.

Update of #Covid_19 in #Sindh as on 29.05.2020

#SindhHealth #CoronaVirusPakistan pic.twitter.com/gDEC4g4a2P
— Health, SW, PHE & RD Department, Sindh (@SindhHealthDpt) May 29, 2020

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department reported 13 more fatalities in the province. This brings the provincial death toll to 445 according to their daily coronavirus update.

225 new cases confirmed today (6 from Iran pilgrims, 1 from Torkham returnees) taking total to 9,067. 13 more lives were lost (5 Peshawar, 3 Bajaur, 2 Swat, 1 Mardan, 1 Malakand, 1 Battagram) taking the total to 445. 38 new patients have recovered taking tally to 2,731. pic.twitter.com/JrPwcpL0yx
— Health Department KP (@HealthKPGovt) May 29, 2020

Balochistan Health Department issued their Daily Situation Report and said that the department changed its policies to account for probable deaths. The new death toll reported by the province is 76 including 46 confirmed deaths and 30 probable deaths.

Covid19 daily situation report 29 May 2020.@jam_kamal @LiaquatShahwani @ZahoorBuledi @MeerLangau @spurlai_watan @PDMABalochistan @FazeelAsgharDMG @bap_mediacell @BalochistanMed3 @arifjanmhassani @ pic.twitter.com/CvVm4tzLuo
— Govt. of Balochistan (@dpr_gob) May 29, 2020

Islamabad reported four more fatalities according to a detailed reported issued by the DC Commissioner Islamabad bringing the death toll of the Islamabad Capital Territory to 23.

Covid update for Islamabad.

We have 2100 cases and 23 deaths. Death rate is above 1 percent now. pic.twitter.com/Qo64g5XHuN
— Office of Deputy Commissioner Islamabad (@dcislamabad) May 29, 2020

Gilgit Baltistan reported no new fatalities according to the Daily Situation Report issued by the GB Health Department. However, there were two new cases registered.

District wise distribution of COVID19 cases in Gilgit-Baltistan #CombatCoronaVirus #CorinaFreeGB #InshAllah #StayHomeStaySafe pic.twitter.com/MnAZ9tZ7ng
— Health Department Gilgit-Baltistan (@HealthDeptGB) May 29, 2020

Punjab has not reported latest figures for 29 May 2020. We still have the following report with figures from the previous day (28 May 2020). We will update this post with the latest Punjab figures for 28 May 2020 once they are released.

UPDATE: Punjab reported 29 more fatalities on 29 May 2020 according to the report by Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). This brins the provincial death toll to 439.

With 1,140 new infections in 24hrs, 24,104 individuals have been infected with #Covid_19 in Punjab till 10 PM May 29, 2020. 29 more lives have been lost in 24hrs, bringing the total no. of fatalities to 439. 6,507 people have recovered from #Covid_19 including 169 in last 24hrs. pic.twitter.com/7p6gb5FY7F
— PDMA Punjab Official (@PdmapunjabO) May 30, 2020

Here is province wise breakdown of coronavirus cases in Pakistan as of 1:00pm on 30 May 2020.

Coronavirus cases in Pakistan (Province Breakdown)

Province	Cases	Deaths
Sindh	26113	427
Punjab	24104	439
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	9067	445
Balochistan	4087	46
Islamabad	2100	23
Gilgit Baltistan	660	9
AJK	227	5
TOTAL	66358	1394

TOTAL RECOVERED: 22305

Global Update

The total number of coronavirus cases globally have crossed 5.99 million while the death toll has topped 365,000. Here are the top 10 most affected countries with a their coronavirus figures as of making this post:

Country	Cases	Deaths
United States	1,786,116	104,135
Brazil	450,079	27,276
Russia	387,623	4,374
Spain	285,644	27,121
UK	271,222	38,161
Italy	232,248	33,229
France	186,835	28,714
Germany	183,019	8,594
India	173,458	4,980
Turkey	162,120	4,489