City Centers in Pakistan Increase in COVID-19 Positivity….

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ISLAMABAD: COVID positivity ratio in major urban centres of the country with Nowshera city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province leading with 46.77 percent ratio, ARY NEWS reported.

According to sources in the national health ministry, the overall Covid positivity ratio in Pakistan stood at 12.46 percent during the last 24 hours, with KP province recording the highest ratio with 16.25 percent, followed by 12.37 percent in Sindh, 8.99 percent in Punjab, and 7.80 percent in Balochistan.

In federating units, Azad Jammu and Kashmir reported 21.98 percent, and Gilgit Baltistan 9.72 percent.

With regard to major urban cities, Muzaffarabad remained second highest with a 34.09 percent COVID positivity ratio, followed by Karachi with 21.67 percent ratio, Hyderabad 20.05 percent, Lahore 19.30 percent, Gilgit 18.99 percent, Rawalpindi 16.07 percent, Islamabad 14.77 percent, Faisalabad 12.41 and Quetta 10.21 percent.

Pakistan reported as many as 7,978 cases of COVID-19 in a single day on Sunday, the second-highest daily caseload since the outbreak of the pandemic in Feb 2020.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), a total of 64,016 samples were tested, out of which 7,978 turned out to be positive, showing the infection rate of 12.46 per cent as compared to yesterday’s 11.31 per cent.

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