The national corona positivity rate was recorded at 2.81 per cent on Sunday as the National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed 406 new cases and two deaths in the past 24 hours.
The number of corona patients undergoing intensive care across the country has reached 94, as per the NIH. In the last 24 hours, 14,496 tests for corona have been conducted nationwide.
Covid-19 infections are steadily rising in Sindh, with the overall rate of corona positive cases in the province reaching 7.64 per cent while that of Karachi was recorded at 21.71 per cent.
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This is a big jump from just last week when Sindh’s positivity rate had been recorded at 5 per cent as Karachi stood at 10.08 per cent.
Today, Hyderabad’s positivity rate was recorded at 8.51 per cent.
Meanwhile, 8.77 per cent positivity rate was reported in Mardan, followed by 3.45 per cent in Islamabad, 3 per cent in Peshawar,
Lahore, Rawalpindi and Gujrat’s rates of infections continue to remain below the national average standing at 2.82 per cent, 1.64 per cent and 1.82 per cent, respectively.
Last week, health professionals cautioned against the number of positive cases that could go up if precautionary measures such as social distancing and wearing masks in public were sidestepped. They had further advised the populace to get their booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
As of Thursday, 136,422,713 jabs of the first dose of vaccines had been administered nationwide, while 125,250,104 citizens were fully vaccinated. In comparison, only 17,828,826 booster doses had been administered.
The Sindh government had also declared the reinstatement of non-pharmaceutical intervention guidelines for Karachi on Friday to mitigate the “alarming” rise of Covid-19 infections in Karachi.