The South-Asian country recorded as many as 77,266 new COVID-19 cases and 1,057 deaths in the past 24 hours.
India is still the third highest-hit country with over 742,023 active cases, 2,583,948 have been successfully cured and discharged from various hospitals.
Till Thursday, a total of 39,477,848 samples had been tested, with 901,338 samples tested on Thursday alone.
Federal Government has focused on ramping up samples testing.