ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus pandemic fourth wave still taking toll across Pakistan as the death tally by the virus 25,000 mark after 70 more fatalities were reported during last 24 hours besides 3,239 people were contracted with the pandemic.
According to latest figures appeared on National Coronavirus Dashboard of the National Command and Operation Council (NCOC) the toll of fatalities has surged to 24,783 after 70 new deaths during last 24 hours. The toll of positive cases across the country jumped to 1,116,886 with 3,239 new cases during last one day.
The number of Coronavirus patients who have recovered from the deadly virus in Pakistan exceeded one million.
NCOC figures has shown that Pakistan has conducted overall 17,115,272 coronavirus tests while during last 24 hours 51,982 tests were conducted out of them 3,239 people were tested positive taking the positivity ratio to 6.82 per cent.
The number of active or currently ill patients, is at 89,673, which is the highest since May 2 when the country recorded 89,661 active cases.
The NCOC counted 1,002,430 recovered cases after 3,027 more survivors were recorded. Meanwhile, 70 more people lost their lives to the disease, raising the death toll to 24,783.
The daily positivity rate, or rate of infected patients among those tested, is 6.23% out of 51,982 tests as of August 20. The recommended rate by the World Health Organization is below 5%, since high numbers may mean high transmission.
The average number of new infections reported each day in Pakistan rose by more than 940 over the last three weeks, 16% of its previous peak, according to Reuters.
COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Pakistan, with 4,050 new infections reported on average each day. That’s 69% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on June 17.
Pakistan has administered at least 44,736,977 doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs two doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 10.3% of the country’s population.
During the last week reported, Pakistan averaged about 716,137 doses administered each day. At that rate, it will take a further 61 days to administer enough doses for another 10% of the population.
According to latest report of the NCOC, Punjab remains the worst-hit province in terms of deaths followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The overall tally of fatalities was reported 24,783 out of which 11,479 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab, 6,556 in Sindh, 4,730 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 842 in Islamabad, 672 in Azad Kashmir, 335 in Balochistan, and 169 in Gilgit-Baltistan.
The tally of positive cases jumped to 1,002,430 out of which 417,439 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Sindh, 377,208 in Punjab, 155,153 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 95,491 in Islamabad, 31,755 in Balochistan, 30,314 in Azad Kashmir and 9,526 in Gilgit-Baltistan.
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