COVID-19 cases reach 4,000 for the first time in a week, NCOC

According to the data issued by the National Command and Operation Center data showed on Thursday the coronavirus cases has reached 4,000 in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, for the first time in seven days.

Pakistan’s daily toll of coronavirus cases has mostly been between the 3,000-4,000 ranges for close to a month.

As many as 63,161 coronavirus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours across the country, out of which 4,062 came back positive, stated the latest official data.

NOCO data showed the daily death toll has been balanced around 100 for over a week.

The tally of active cases was considerably compact for the second consecutive day to 91,589 as 4,136 repossessions were stated in the last 24 hours.

The total number of recoveries has now reached up to 1,076,112.

The current positivity rate stands at 6.43%.

Since August 24, Pakistan’s positivity rate has been under 7% on 15 out of 17 days.

On the contrary, Pakistan has been reporting 3,778 new infections on average each day, 64% of the peak the highest daily average stated on June 17.

The country has managed at least 64,554,859 doses of COVID vaccines.

Considering every person needs 2 doses, that’s enough to have inoculated about 14.9% of the country’s population.

Furthermore, during the last week, Pakistan averaged about 1,192,780 doses administered each day.

At that rate, it will take a further 37 days to administer enough doses for another 10% of the population.