KARACHI: A weekly report has released that Pakistan reported a total of 9,206 new cases during the last week, showing a decline of 30 percent week over week in new cases.
The new cases have slopped down our new cases from a peak of 40,807 cases that were reported in seven days or an average of 5,829 cases registered per day during mid-June.
While 243 lives were lost during the week, the number is 37 percent down from 333 deaths that reported a week earlier.
The number of tests during the week stood at 149K or around 21K tests on average per day, which is slightly down from 155K tests we conducted in total a week earlier.
Of new cases during the week, Sindh contributed around 57 percent or 5,304 cases during the week; which is high as regional standard but was down almost 30 percent from 7,474 new cases that the province reported during a week earlier.
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The number of tests conducted during the week remains almost flat with a slight decline. Overall a total of 149,468 tests were conducted during the week, down almost 6 percent from 155,598 tests that were conducted a week ago.
Test to positive case ratio during the week remained at around 6 percent, down from almost 25 percent that we witnessed during mid-June.
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