Observer Report
Islamabad
The Coronavirus positivity rate continues to increase in the country and reached 3.72 percent, as 807 more people tested Covid-19 positive after the tests of 21,688 over the last twenty-four hours.
Pakistan reported 11 more coronavirus-related fatalities during the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 6,806.
Yet another doctor succumbed to the coronavirus in Peshawar on Saturday.
In a statement, the Provincial Doctors Association said Dr Sultan Zeb, associate dean at the Khyber College of Dentistry, had been diagnosed with the coronavirus and was undergoing treatment at Hayatabad Medical Complex.
Expressing grief at his demise, the association said Dr Zeb’s contributions to the field of medicine would be remembered. The statement added that his funeral would take place in Buner.
According to the National Command and Operation Centre, 807 fresh infections emerged during this period, lifting the national tally of cases to 332,993. There are a total of 12,121 active cases of the coronavirus as 314,066 patients have so far recuperated from the disease.
Thus far, Sindh has reported 145,475 cases, followed by Punjab reporting 104,016 cases while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reported 39,458, Balochistan 15,896, Islamabad 19,818, Gilgit Baltistan 4,248 and Azad Jammu and Kashmir 4,082. As many as 669 of the patients under treatment in hospitals across the country are said to be in critical condition.
Meanwhile, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said that a total of 376 cases of Covid-19 detected in last 24 hours in the province.
“Two people also lost their lives owing to Covid-19,” the chief minister said during a routine daily briefing on the virus as the overall death toll in the province has reached up to 2,627.
Murad Ali Shah said that 7479 samples were tested in 24 hours in the province, adding that as many as 241 more patients of the coronavirus recuperated during the past 24 hours, bring the total recoveries to 138,669. Currently, 4555 patients have been under treatment across the province.
