Pakistan on Friday recorded a noteworthy fall in new COVID-19 cases as less than 1,000 daily infections were reported in the last 24 hours, as per the government data.
The recent data from the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) demonstrated that Pakistan reported 912 cases after 45,619 tests were conducted. The country previously recorded a daily case count below 1,000 on July 6 at 830 cases.
Additionally 26 people, in the interim, lost their lives to the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 28,058.
The positivity rate, too, came below 2% for the first time since June 29, which is over three months ago. The present positivity rate is 1.99%.
As per the NCOC stats, the total number of cases has reached 1,256,233. In addition to this, 1,633 patients have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours across the country, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,184,527, whereas the number of active cases has fallen to 43,648.
COVID-19 infections are declining in Pakistan, with 1,456 new infections reported on average daily. That’s 25% of the peak the highest daily average recounted on June 17.
Pakistan has administered at least 87,741,079 doses of COVID vaccines till now. Considering every person needs 2 doses, that’s sufficient to have vaccinated about 20.3% of the country’s population.
