Over 92% COVID-19 patients recover in Pakistan: NCOC

KARACHI: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has revealed that over 92 percent of coronavirus patients have recovered in Pakistan.

As many as 264,060 people have recovered from coronavirus across the country so far, making it a significant count, as it constitutes 92 percent of the total number of patients.

There are now 16,475 active cases in the country. About 753 new coronavirus cases were reported with 10 new deaths across the country over the last 24 hours. So far, 2,297 patients have succumbed to coronavirus in Sindh, 2,179 in Punjab, 1,235 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 173 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 138 in Balochistan, 59 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir(AJK), and 58 patients have died in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Moreover, with 735 hospitals equipped with COVID-19 treatment facilities, 1,341 patients are admitted to various medical centers across the country. About 144 ventilators are occupied across Pakistan out of 1, 859 allocated for COVID-19 patients across the country.

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The number of coronavirus cases is rapidly declining in Pakistan, however, the NCOC has issued a warning for the re-emergence of coronavirus in Muharram.

On the other hand, the Microsoft founder-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates has also acknowledged Pakistan’s flattened COVID-19 curve. He said that coronavirus cases have witnessed a massive decline in Pakistan in recent days.