ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded the highest number of daily Covid cases since three months as 2,074 infections were reported from across the country during the past 24 hours.
Pakistan has witnessed the highest daily Covid cases today since September 24 – 2021 in accordance with the statistics released by the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) on Wednesday.
Thirteen (13) deaths were reported in a day that is also the highest since December 15 last year, taking the total number of mortalities to 28,987.
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The positivity rate reached up to 4.7 per cent, whereas, the recovery rate stood at 96.2 per cent. Overall 1,309,248 cases have been reported in Pakistan so far and 1,259,699 patients were recovered from the virus.
Statistics 12 Jan 22:
Total Tests in Last 24 Hours: 44,120
Positive Cases: 2074
Positivity %: 4.70%
Deaths :13
Patients on Critical Care: 628— NCOC (@OfficialNcoc) January 12, 2022
The spread of Omicron has also forced the federal and provincial governments to take special steps for expediting the vaccination process. However, the vaccination rate in Karachi, currently having the highest infection rate of Omicron variant, still stood at 40 per cent.
According to official data, 100,410,291 people have been administered the first dose of the Covid vaccine, whereas, 75,225,220 nationals were fully vaccinated followed by further instructions by the federal government to go for a third booster dose to get prevented from contracting Omicron infection.
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A total of 163,648,656 doses of Covid vaccines have been administered in Pakistan so far.
Vaccine Statistics:
Vaccine administered across Pakistan in last 24 hours:
826,996
Total vaccine administered till now: 164,475,652— NCOC (@OfficialNcoc) January 12, 2022
In Sindh, the health authorities have taken the decision to launch a special vaccination program in several cities after the Covid positivity rate moves past 20.22 per cent.
However, the federal government had ruled out any possibilities of imposing complete lockdown and closure of educational institutions despite the outbreak of Omicron variant and rise in the infections during the first wave of the pandemic.