Lahore becomes Covid-19 hotspot as positivity ratio stands at 20%

According to details, the government has procured 100 more ventilators following the alarming surge in Covid-19 patients.

The Punjab government procured 100 more ventilators as hospitals in provincial capital strain under influx of coronavirus patients.

Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid, while talking to local media, said that most of the ventilator machines are now occupied in the hospitals and the demand is increasing as there is a persistent spike in coronavirus cases.

The health minister termed the third wave of Covid-19 as deadlier and said that government will be forced to impose lockdown people continue to violations coronavirus Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs).

“Recommendations have been finalized for complete lockdown in eight cities of Punjab including Lahore for 15 days,” she said.

Dr. Yasmin confirmed that 29 patients succumbed to the virus in Lahore during the past 24 hours including 14 at Mayo Hospital, 6 at Jinnah Hospital, 4 at General Hospital, 3 at Punjab Institute of Neurosciences (PINS) and one at a private hospital.

On the other hand, police registered 704 cases against people on violating Covid-19 restrictions.

Pakistan is presently experiencing the third wave of coronavirus which is said to be deadlier and more contagious than the previous two waves.

According to National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), around 4,584 cases of coronavirus were reported while 58 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 15,501.

The total number of confirmed cases reached to 725,602. As many as 6, 34,835 patients have recovered from the disease with 4,201 critical cases.

In Punjab, the number of patients swelled to 250,459 in the province with 6,988 causalities.