ISLAMABAD: The number of new COVID-19 infections in the country was recorded at 4,487 on Tuesday as the national positivity ratio reached over 10 percent.
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) – the nerve centre of the government’s unified effort to contain the spread of the contagion – confirmed the upward trend which started at the beginning of March.
As many as 142 patients succumbed to the virus while the number of active cases reached 87,794. Almost 699,816 people have recovered their health back, while 5,075 patients are still critical at the country’s various hospitals.
Meanwhile, Health Ministry has confirmed that Pakistan has so far not reported any case of a new “Indian strain”, a double-mutant variant, of the coronavirus that has caused massive devastation with a drastic increase in coronavirus infections.
Talking to journalists, Syed Sajid Shah, a spokesman for health ministry, said the country was still “safe” from the Indian variant. “Cases of the UK variant of the virus, however, are being reported,” he added.
