Staff Correspondent:
Twenty-eight more people have died from the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll from the pandemic to 5,072 in the country.

Besides,1540 fresh positive cases have been registered during the time. With this, the total number of confirmed cases climbed to 355,384.

The daily health press of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) online on Thursday (September 24).

Health authorities reported another 2,139 people to have recovered from the disease in a day, rising the total number of recoveries to 265,092.

The first coronavirus death was reported in the country on March 18, ten days after the detection of the first COVID-19 cases.