Pakistan records lowest Covid-19 cases since April last year

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday recorded 176 new coronavirus infections, the lowest since April last year, taking the country’s total tally of Covid cases to 13,738.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre, the national tally of total active Covid-19 cases was recorded at 13,738 with 176 more people testing positive for the deadly virus while nine more people died from the coronavirus during the last 24 hours.

During the last 24 hours, most of the deaths took place in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa followed by Punjab.

The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major cities– Multan 20 per cent, Peshawar 16 per cent, Islamabad 11 per cent and Lahore 09 per cent.

The maximum Oxygen beds (alternate oxygen providing facility other than ventilator administered as per the medical requirement of COVID patient) were also occupied in four major areas including Multan 30 per cent, Swabi 23 per cent, Sargodha 18 per cent and Gujrat 13 per cent.

Around 104 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in the country while no Covid affected person was on the ventilator in, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Balochistan and AJK.

Some 29,530 tests were conducted across the country on Sunday, including 3,081 in Sindh, 14,018 in Punjab, 8,775 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 2,922 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 325 in Balochistan, 269 in GB, and 140 in AJK.
Around 1,241,909 people have recovered from the disease so far across Pakistan making it a significant count.

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Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 1,284,365 cases were detected that also included the perished, recovered and under treatment Covid-19 patients so far, including AJK 34,554, Balochistan 33,479, G-B 10,411, ICT 10,7661, KP 179,961, Punjab 443,014 and Sindh 475,285.

About 28,718 deaths were recorded in the country since the eruption of the contagion. Around 7,621 have perished in Sindh, while 13, 019 out of which 03 died in hospital on Sunday. However, 5, 838 had died in KP where 05 of them died in hospital on Sunday, 953 in ICT out of which one died in hospital on Sunday, Balochistan 359, GB 186, AJK 742.

A total of 21,943,198 corona tests have been conducted so far, while 640 hospitals were equipped with Covid facilities. Some 966 corona patients were admitted to hospitals across the country.