Islamabad:Forty-one new cases of the novel coronavirus surfaced in Pakistan bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections in the country to 94 on Monday.
As of Sunday, the country reported 53 coronavirus cases.
All new cases were diagnosed in the southern Sindh province where government spokesman Murtaza Wahab said that they were among those who were shifted from Taftaan on Iran's border to Sindh.
"More results have come in. So the total patients have reached 76 in Sindh. Out of these 76 patients, 2 have recovered and the remaining 74 are being kept in isolation," he said.
With the latest addition, the total number in the country reached 94.
Meanwhile, the government is taking steps to contain the pandemic as authorities in Punjab province converted all public sector universities' hostels into quarantine centers as an immediate arrangement.
Officials said that universities were informed in the province to clean all hostels and shift the belongings of students, if there were any, to storerooms after properly tagging them for identity.