Pakistan reported its first coronavirus casualty on Tuesday, health ministry officials said as the number of positive cases of the Covid-19 infection rose to 193 in the country.

Sindh has 155 positive cases, followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 15, Balochistan 10, Gilgit-Baltistan 5, Islamabad 2 and Punjab 6, officials said.

“One Covid-19 patient who was brought from Hafizabad, some 150km from Lahore, died here on Tuesday,” Punjab health minister Yasmin Rashid told a news conference here on Tuesday.

She said five new cases of the coronavirus have emerged in Punjab and as many in Sindh raising the total number of the Covid-19 infections to 193, including 155 in Sindh province. In a statement, the National Command and Control Centre has also confirmed the first death in the country.

The patient was admitted at the Mayo Hospital in Lahore. He came here from Muscat on March 15. He was tested positive and shifted to Mayo Hospital where he died on Tuesday. Rashid said the government has been in contact with clerics to close worship places.