ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The COVID-19 situation in Pakistan is turning dire as the country's positivity rate has risen to 13% in the last 24 hours, an official report by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on Sunday said. Having said.
According to the NCOC, a total of 58,334 tests were conducted in the country during the last 24 hours, of which 7,586 came back positive, taking the number of virus cases across the country to 1,367,605.
The country's positivity rate is now at a record high of 13%. Pakistan on Friday recorded its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases at 7,678 since the pandemic began in 2020. Meanwhile, 20 more patients succumbed to the virus during the same period, taking the death toll to 29,097. In addition, the country's active coronavirus cases rose to 70,263, making it the highest in four months. Pakistan last reported 65,725 active cases on September 16, 2021.
According to NCOC data, the condition of 1,083 Kovid-19 patients is critical. The NCOC revised the COVID-19 protocol for mosques and announced that only fully vaccinated people would be allowed to pray inside places of worship.
The NCOC on Friday also announced that all schools with high COVID-19 positivity ratio will remain closed for a week across the country. Meanwhile, hospitalizations due to COVID-19 continued in Karachi, where three more people died due to complications of infectious diseases, as the positivity stood at over 42 per cent, officials said on Sunday.
Health officials in Sindh said some major private hospitals refused to admit COVID-19 patients as they were filled to capacity, while public hospitals too had a large number on an hourly basis on Sunday. I met patients.
Three more coronavirus patients died overnight, taking the death toll to 7,741 and 3,108 new cases, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said in his daily COVID-19 status report on Sunday. , when 16,469 tests were conducted.
Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 16,469 samples were tested, in which 3,108 cases were detected, which constitutes the current detection rate of 18.9 per cent. He said 7,467,836 tests have been conducted so far, out of which 524,797 cases have been diagnosed, 90.5 per cent of them or 474,819 patients have been cured, including 464 overnight.
The Chief Minister said that 42,237 patients are currently undergoing treatment; Of them, 41,775 were in home isolation, 30 in isolation centers and 432 in different hospitals, it said, adding that the condition of 368 patients was reported as critical, of which 23 were shifted on ventilators.
According to him, out of 3,108 new cases, 2,480 have been detected from Karachi. As per district wise data, 811 cases were found in South Karachi, East Karachi 704, Central Karachi 448, Hyderabad 258, Korangi 242, Malir 155, West Karachi 120, Kashmir 28, Sangh 27, Sujawal and Tando Mohammad Khan 25-25, Badin . 24, Ghotki 23, Sukkur 20, Tharparkar 17, Thatta and Mirpurkhas 16 each, Nawabshah and Dadu 14 each, Matiyari 12, Jamshoro and Tando Allahyar 10-10, Umarkot 9, Larkano, Shikarpur and Jacobabad 8-8, Khairpur and Nowshero Firoz 2 each. New COVID cases registered.