Govt decides to lower age bar for walk-in vaccination
Staff reporter Islamabad
Another 98 people lost their lives to the coronavirus whereas 5,857 new infections were reported during the last 24 hours, showed the data released by the National Command and Operation Centre on Thursday morning.
As per the NCOC statistics, after the addition of 98 new deaths the toll has now surged to 16,698 and the number of confirmed cases stood at 778,238, after adding the 5,857 new ones.
As many as 275,081 coronavirus cases have so far been confirmed in Sindh, 279,437 in Punjab, 109,704 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 71,533 in Islamabad, 21,242 in Balochistan, 16,026 in Azad Kashmir and 5,215 in Gilgit Baltistan.
In Punjab, authorities reported 54 deaths due to the coronavirus, raising total casualties to 7,718.
The province now has 279,437 confirmed cases; it reported 2,902 new infections after conducting 28,829 tests, a positivity ratio of 10.1 percent.
There were 2,351 new recoveries recorded, leaving 226,380 fully recovered, and 45,339 active cases of the virus.
Confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Sindh have now climbed to 275,081; it reported 885 new infections after conducting 12,881 tests, a positivity ratio of 6.87 percent.
The province reported 3 new deaths, raising toll to 4,562, while its recoveries rose by 246 to 261,298. Overall, the province now has 9,221 active cases of the novel coronavirus.
