ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 3,119 new cases and 44 deaths due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours as the positivity rate rises in the country.
According to the latest figures from the National Command and Control Centre (NCOC), the total number of cases have reached 413,191 while there are still 52,359 active cases. The positivity rate of coronavirus cases increased to 7.58 percent as compared to yesterday’s record of 7.3 percent.
Furthermore, 44 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 8,303. Over 2,224 patients have recovered from the virus during the past day. 2,441 patients are in critical condition including 46 reported within a day.
A total of 41,115 tests were conducted across the country during this period. 2,224 people have recovered from the deadly disease while 5,713,341 samples have been tested thus far.
Globally over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average.
Half a million deaths occurred in just the last two months, indicating that the severity of the pandemic is far from over. Nearly 65 million people globally have been infected by the disease and the worst affected country, United States, is currently battling a third wave of coronavirus infections.
In the last week alone, more than 10,000 people in the world died on average every single day, which has been steadily rising each passing week.
Many countries across the world are now fighting second and third waves even greater than the first, forcing new restrictions on everyday life.
The novel coronavirus caused more deaths in the past year than tuberculosis in 2019 and nearly four times the number of deaths due to malaria, according to the World Health Organisation.
