Pakistan witnesses gradual decline in COVID-19 deaths

Islamabad: It appears that Pakistan may finally be curbing the pandemic’s impact as COVID related hospitalizations and deaths are decreasing dramatically.   

Amid a steady decline in Covid-19 infections, Pakistan's coronavirus positivity ratio further fell to 1.40% with 622 new cases.

Over the past week, there has been an average of fewer than 800 new COVID cases reported per day in Pakistan, marking the first time the seven-day rolling average has dipped to 600.

According to National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), around 622 cases of coronavirus were reported while 16 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 28,328.

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

The total number of cases has reached 1,266,826.

As many as 1,213,799 patients have recovered from the disease with 1,690 critical cases.

Punjab

The number of patients swelled to 438,433 in the province with 12,876 causalities.

Sindh

The number of infections has surged to 466,750 in the province, while the death toll has reached 7,536.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The confirmed cases have surged to 177,132 in the province with 5,698 casualties.

Balochistan

There are 33,149 confirmed cases while 354 patients have died from the infection so far.

AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan

There are 34,417 coronavirus cases in the AJK while the death toll has reached 740. On the other hand, there are 10,374 cases in GB with 186 coronavirus deaths.

Islamabad

There are 106,571 cases in the capital city while 938 people have lost their lives.