Islamabad, June 26 (RHC)-- Testing for COVID-19 has continued to fall in Pakistan, one of the country's with the fastest rates of growth of the coronavirus.

On Thursday, Pakistan tested 21,041 patients, of whom 2,775 tested positive, a test-positive rate of 13 percent.  Pakistan's countrywide tally of cases rose to 195,745 cases on Thursday, with 59 deaths taking the death toll to 4,037.

Sindh and Punjab provinces, the country's two most populous regions, appear to be the main areas where testing has dropped, according to government data.  Testing in Sindh has roughly halved over the course of this week to 6,458 tests, while in Punjab testing remains at a level more than 2,000 tests below its peak.