ISLAMABAD: The Covid-19 pandemic claimed 11 more lives in Pakistan during the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 28,280.
According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 663 more people got infected with the viral disease, lifting the nationwide tally of confirmed infections to 1,265,047.A total of 39,902 samples were tested, out of which 663 turned out to be positive, showing an infection rate of 1.66 per cent as compared to yesterday’s 1.60%. At present, there are 1,913 critical patients in hospitals across the country.As many as 1,019 people have recovered from the pandemic during the last 24 hours, overall 1,210,897 people have regained their health so far.
Read more: NCOC issues guidelines for Rabiul Awwal celebrations. Last week, National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) had announced to end a mandatory day-off of businesses across the country besides also easing other COVID restrictions in the wake of declining virus cases and improved vaccination.After an NCOC meeting, it was announced that the fresh non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) including abolishing a mandatory day off in a week would remain applicable between October 16 to 31.
According to a top source, Pakistan’s federal capital of Islamabad reported the first instance of the novel strain on Saturday. The patient had come from Karachi.
On December 13, Pakistan announced the first case of omicron in Karachi, even though numerous additional individuals were thought to have caught the variation in other regions of the nation, such as Balochistan.
Following the appearance of omicron cases in the nation last week, Pakistan’s Planning Minister Asad Umar asked eligible citizens to get vaccinated. He declared that it was now “even more urgent” to quicken Pakistan’s immunization effort due to the new variant’s global expansion.
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