ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported almost 105 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the country’s highest death toll since June 25 when it recorded 123 fatalities.
According to the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC), the deaths have taken Pakistan’s total number of fatalities to 9,010 with a mortality rate of 2.27 percent. Out of the 105 patients who died of coronavirus, 70 were on ventilators.
Since the beginning of December, at least 919 people have died of coronavirus with a daily average of 61.22 deaths. Sindh reported the highest number of deaths as 58 people died of coronavirus, followed by 30 deaths in Punjab, 12 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, two each in Islamabad and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and one in Balochistan.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus monitoring department informed 2,731 new COVID-19 infections were reported, raising the cumulative infection tally to 445,977. The national case positivity rate has climbed to 7.18 percent.
The NCOC data showed the country recorded 45,495 COVID-19 infections since December 1 at an average of 3,033 cases per day. The number has doubled as the first half of November saw 25,062 infections with an average of 1,670 cases per day.
There are 48,369 active coronavirus cases across the country, out of which 2,510 are critical with 316 patients on ventilators. The highest ventilator occupancy has been observed in Multan (48%) and Islamabad (46%).
According to the NCOC, Pakistan has one of the highest recovery rates in the world with over 87% of the patients surviving the virus. The country reported 2,265 new recoveries in the past 24 hours.
