The national tally of Covid-19 pandemic on Monday was recorded declining with one of the lowest positivity ratio and reduced per day positive cases, disease trend and death rate since second wave.
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in a tweet on it’s official handle shared the latest disease statistics. The nerve centre of the country in its fight against the pandemic wrote that some 32,466 tests were conducted across the country with 240 more people tested positive for the contagious disease.
There were 1,111 Covid infected patients under treatment in critical condition in various Covid dedicated healthcare facilities of the country. The National Covid positivity ratio during past 24 hours was recorded 0.73%.
The Covid positivity ratio is the percentage of actual positive cases appearing in every 100 tests performed to identify infected individuals. During the past 24 hours, some six infected patients died due to the deadly virus including those under treatment in the hospitals and in their respective quarantines or homes.
A patient of coronavirus died overnight lifting the death toll to 7,604 while 43 new cases emerged when 5,078 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued here on Monday. He added that a patient of COVID-19 lost his life lifting the death toll to 7,604 that constituted 1.6 percent death rate.
Murad Ali Shah said 5,078 samples were tested which detected 43 cases that constituted 0.8 percent current detection rate. He added that so far 6,581,886 tests had been conducted against which 472,202 cases were diagnosed, of them 95.8 percent or 452,239 patients had recovered, including 140 overnight.
The CM said currently 12,359 patients were under treatment, of them 12,137 were in home isolation, 23 at isolation centers and 199 at different hospitals. He added that the condition of 195 patients was stated to be critical, including 12 shifted to ventilators. According to the statement, out of 43 new cases, 32 had been detected from Karachi, including 15 from East, 12 South, three Malir and Hyderabad has seven, Larkana two, Badin and Sanghar one each.
Sharing vaccination data the CM said 22,959,996 vaccinations had been administered upto November 13th, adding that during last 24 hours 106,748 vaccines were inoculated – in total 23,066,744 vaccines has administered which constituted 43.24 percent of the vaccine eligible population. The chief minister urged people of the province to follow Standard Operating Procedures.
