ISLAMABAD: Thirty-five deaths due to coronavirus and 1,764 new confirmed cases have been reported in Pakistan during the past 24 hours.

The total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country have soared to 25,837.

Of these, 9,093 were reported in Sindh, 10,033 in Punjab, 3,956 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,725 in Balochistan, 558 in Islamabad, 394 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 78 in Azad Kashmir.

Over 7,500 patients have been recovered from the virus so far.

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On Friday, Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan chaired a high level meeting to review the current situation of coronavirus lockdown and other related issues.

The meeting agreed that lockdown will be made to ease for one weak in condition of corona test result and traders will also be taken into confidence regarding the alarming situation of the coronavirus.

The meeting directed to review being taken steps to eradicate at provincial level locusts and to set up at the Provincial Command and Operations Center. It was also decided in Eid-ul-Fitr would be celebrated with utmost simplicity at the official level while the people were also urged to observe Eid-ul-Fitr with simplicity, so that precautionary measures and implementation of social distances would make possible.