(Islamabad) Another 71 Covid-19 patients died across the country
in the last 24 hours; taking the death toll to 8,724; the National Command and
Operation Center (NCOC) reported on Saturday. ‘In all, 2,470 patients are in
critical condition across Pakistan and their number is rising fast;’ said the
Center in its daily COVID-19 situation report. The National Positivity Ratio is
6.59% with Karachi reporting the highest positivity ratio of 20.88% followed by
Peshawar 15.05%, Muzaffarabad 11.20%; Rawalpindi 9.94%; Abbottabad 8.60%;
Hyderabad 8.33% and Mirpur 7.87%. Lahore where the Pakistan Democratic Movement
(PDM) is set to stage a public meeting on Sunday (today) in the registered
4.56% positivity ratio in the last 24 hours. Pakistan currently has 2% fatality
rate against global rate of 2.24%. The highest fatality rates of 2.8% and 2.6%
have been observed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab respectively. The two
provinces are followed by Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) with a fatality rate of
2.4%, Gilgit Baltistan 2.0% and Sindh 1.6%. Balochistan has the lowest fatality
rate of 0.98%. With 32 people dying of the novel Coronavirus; Punjab recorded
the most deaths in the past 24 hours. Sindh reported 22; KP and Islamabad
recorded five and two died in AJK.
Since the beginning of December; Pakistan is losing about 57 lives
on average per day; as 634 people have died of Covid-19 in the past 11 days. During
the early months of the pandemic, the country was reporting as many as 139
deaths every day with a mortality rate of over 2.14%. Out of 41,426 PCR tests
conducted across the country; SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 2,729 on Friday;
raising the country's coronavirus tally to 435,056. With 1,489 people testing
positive; Sindh continues to report highest positivity rate of 12.91%. Punjab
reported 629 new infections with a positivity rate of 3.87%; while
Balochistan's rate stands at 10.48% with 46 new cases. At least 42 people
tested positive for the virus in AJK as the region's positivity rate remains
above 8%. With 252 new infections, KP's positivity rate stands at 4.12% and
GB's at 1.23%. The positivity rate in the federal capital was registered at
4.27%. At 87.68%, Pakistan has one of the highest recovery rates in the world
as a total of 381,208 survived the deadly disease - 2,116 in the past 24 hours
only. The highest recovery rate has been observed in Balochistan as 96% of the
COVID-19 patients have tested negative after recovering from the virus followed
by GB at 95.15% and Punjab 91.06%. KP has reported a recovery rate of 88% and
Sindh at 86% while Islamabad and AJK recorded 79.8% and 79.2% respectively. However;
58% hospitalized patients remained on ventilators while 91% deceased were on
also ventilators. Federal Minister for Planning and Development and NCOC head
Asad Umar had already said there was a rapid increase in infections during the
second wave; as the public was less serious than it was during the first wave.
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