ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 6,808 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the second-highest daily case since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, the National Command and Operation Center (NIC) said on Thursday. NCOC) was shared.
NCOC data says the highest daily positive cases were recorded on June 13, 2020, when 6,825 coronavirus cases were reported in the country. The national positivity ratio also touched a nine-month high of 11.50 per cent as the country witnessed a rapid increase in infections due to the Omicron variant.
The highest positivity rate was recorded in Karachi at 41 per cent, followed by Muzaffarabad at 25 per cent, Hyderabad at 17.27 per cent, Islamabad at 15.37 per cent, Lahore at 14.25 per cent, Rawalpindi at 12.75 per cent and Peshawar at 11.20 per cent. All these cities will face stringent protocols with a ban on indoor weddings and gatherings and 50 per cent attendance in schools for students below the age of 12.
Overall, 58,943 tests were conducted, of which 6,808 were found positive, while the active cases also rose to 51,094. The death toll has risen to 29,042 after five more deaths.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 claimed 17 more lives overnight in Sindh, including 13 in Karachi, while the COVID-19 positivity in the provincial capital reached 46.58 per cent, said officials in the province. 3,739 more cases were reported when 17,002 tests were conducted.
With the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Karachi, where 3,289 people were tested positive for the infectious disease, hospitalizations also started increasing and currently 368 people are being treated in various hospitals, Of which 306 are on high and low flow oxygen while 21 are on ventilators, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said in his daily COVID-19 status report on Thursday.
The Chief Minister said that with 17 more deaths in Sindh, the COVID-19 death toll reached 7,727, taking the fatality rate to 1.5 per cent and added that 17,002 samples were tested, which detected 3,739 cases, which is 22 per cent. constitute the current detection rate.
He informed that 7,419,686 tests have been conducted out of which 514,863 cases were diagnosed, 91.9 per cent of them or 473,340 patients have been cured, including 332 overnight.
Murad Ali Shah said that 33,796 patients are currently undergoing treatment, out of which 33,398 are in home isolation, 30 in isolation centers and 368 in different hospitals, 306 patients are said to be in critical condition, including 21 on ventilators. have been shifted.
According to him, out of 3,739 new cases, 3,289 have been detected in Karachi, including 1,345 East, 773 South, 655 Central, 261 Korangi, 145 Malir and 110 West. Similarly, Hyderabad has 145 cases, Nowshero Firoz 34, Jamshoro 29, Tharparkar 20, Tando Muhammad Khan 19, Badin 16, Dadu 15, Thatta, Umerkot and Sanghar 12-12, Larkana 11, Tando Allahyar, Jacobabad, Khairpur and Mirpurkhas 10. -10 cases were registered. Shikarpur nine, Ghotki five, Shaheed Benazirabad four and Matiyari one.
Vaccination: Sharing the vaccination data, the CM said that 32,462,394 vaccine doses have been given till January 18, and added that during the last 24 hours, 237,284 people have been vaccinated in a total of 32,699,678 vaccine doses, which is 59.01. is the percentage. Vaccine eligible population.
Chief Minister urges the people of the state to follow the SOP
by our correspondent
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Thursday notified that the ban on indoor dining in restaurants and eateries in Karachi and Hyderabad would start from January 21 (Friday) instead of the earlier date of January 24 notified for the purpose.
A notification to this effect was issued by the Additional Chief Secretary, Sindh Home Department, Qazi Shahid Parvez. The revised notification by the Home Department, Government of Sindh has been issued in view of the latest instructions from the National Command and Operations Center for cities in the country where the coronavirus positivity ratio is more than 10 per cent.