Another 24 people lost their lives to Covid-19 in the country in the last 24 hours, according to the latest statistics issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday.
During the last 24 hours, the most deaths occurred in Sindh followed by Punjab. Out of the 24 deaths in the last 24 hours, 15 people died on ventilators.
The NCOC stats revealed that 1,683 people tested positive for coronavirus after 50,531 tests were taken in the last 24 hours. The country’s positivity rate currently stands at 3.33%, with the number of daily cases gradually going up again. The active number of cases is 34,531.
So far, 910,609 people have recovered across Pakistan, making it a significant count. There is no patient on the vent in Balochistan, AJK and GB. The total number of deaths has reached 22,493, while the total number of cases stands at 967,633.
According to a province-wise breakdown of the cases, the total active cases in Sindh are 17,959, in Punjab 17,180, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 10,011, in Islamabad Capital Territory 2,859, in Balochistan 714, in Gilgit-Baltistan 522 and 1,286 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
The coronavirus positivity ratio in the metropolis failed to drop below 10%, Sindh Health Department said, as the ratio hit 10.71% on Thursday. The health department said 3,888 Covid-19 cases were recorded in the first week of July; 80 people succumbed to the virus in the metropolis, while 36,296 tests were conducted.
In the first week of July, 21 people died in District Central, 19 in District West, 16 killed in District East, 12 in District South, eight in District Korangi, and four in District Malir.
Punjab’s tally for confirmed cases reached 347,347 after the province recorded 167 fresh cases of the virus on Tuesday.
Another 7 patients also succumbed to the infectious disease, taking the provincial death toll to 10,798. A total of 328,401 people have so far recovered from the virus in Punjab.
