The receding coronavirus struck back and claimed three lives in Pakistan along with infecting another 46 people during the last 24 hours (Saturday), showed the statistics released by the National Institute of Health Pakistan on Sunday morning.
As per the latest NIH data, the death toll has climbed up to 30,375, whereas the number of total infections now stood at 1,528,531 after adding the fresh 46 cases.
During the last 24 hours (Saturday), 11,021 tests were conducted throughout Pakistan whereas the positivity ratio stood at 0.42 percent. The number of patients in critical care was recorded at 91.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani government has rejected the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report on number of Covid-19 deaths in the country, questioning the United Nations body’s methodology to collect data and supposing an error in the software used to collate the numbers.
In a recent report, the WHO estimated there were 260,000 Covid-19 deaths in Pakistan — eight times the official figure. Official records state Pakistan had 30,375 Covid-19 deaths with over 1.5 million infections.
“We [authorities] have been gathering data manually on Covid deaths, it could have a difference of a few hundred but it can’t be in hundreds of thousands. This is completely baseless,” Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel said.
According to the WHO report, nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years across the world, more than double the official death count of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.
