Pakistan has diagnosed 87 more Covid-19 infections with no fatality but the daily number of test have crossed 6,000 mark during the last 24 hours, showed the statistics released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Saturday morning. According to the NIH data, the death toll in the country remained the same at 30,649 whereas the number of total infections now went up to 1,579,704 after adding the fresh 87 cases. During the last 24 hours, 6,011 tests as compared to previous day’s 4,639 were conducted throughout Pakistan whereas the positivity ratio stood at 1.45%. The number of patients in critical care stood at 25.
China releases genomic data that could help clarify origin of Covid-19 pandemic In the face of intense pressure and criticism from many in the scientific community, Chinese researchers have released a trove of new genetic data that may offer fresh clues to the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. They also substantially revised a related study they first posted online 13 months ago to include this evidence, which some scientists say gives more credibility to the thesis that SARS-CoV-2 could have jumped into humans from raccoon dogs or other mammals illegally sold at a Wuhan market.—INP
