Pakistan recorded 71 coronavirus death in the past 24 hours;
raising the national death toll to 9,080. The average number of
coronavirus deaths in Pakistan has been increasing since the beginning of
December. Government data showed that at least 990 people have died of Covid-19
across the country in the last 16 days at a daily average of 61.18 deaths. Comparatively;
337 lives were lost due to Covid-19 in the first 15 days of November at an
average of 22.4 deaths per day while October saw 137 deaths in the first half
with a daily average of 9.133 deaths. Data issued by the National Command and
Operations Centre (NCOC) on Thursday showed that the country recorded 2,545 new
coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with a positivity rate of 6.3%. Grappling
with a second wave of infections; the country has reported 448,522 Covid-19
cases so far. With 7,993 new recoveries on Wednesday; the number of active
cases has dropped to 42,851. The most number of recoveries were reported in
Sindh (6,952).
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