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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan recorded seven more fatalities due to Covid-19 during the 24-hour period and as many as 288 new cases, the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) reported on Sunday.
The country’s tally for confirmed cases has now reached 1,289,049 whereas the death toll stands at 28,830. The fresh positive cases were recorded against a total of around 46,006 tests conducted on Saturday.
According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 288 more people were infected with the virus. Meanwhile, the country reported COVID-19 positivity rate at 0.62 per cent.
The number of active cases across the country has now reached 9,118. At least 1,251,101 people have recovered from Covid-19 across Pakistan. At present, 740 critical patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country, the NCOC said.
On December 9, samples of three patients from Karachi who are suspected of having contracted the new variant of COVID-19, Omicron, had been sent to the National Institute of Health (NIH) for whole-genome sequencing.
Sindh’s Health Minister had said that the genomic study of a suspected case of Omicron, the new variant of coronavirus, will require up to two weeks. “The symptoms of the female patient were pointing out a likely case of the new variant,” the minister had said.
“It rapidly spreads with a lesser ratio of deaths,” she added. “Female patient of suspected Omicron virus infection was unvaccinated,” the minister said. However, the National Institute of Health (NIH) had said that no case of Omicron was confirmed in Pakistan as yet.
