ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday registered more than 500 new COVID-19 cases in a single day after two months, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) reported.
According to the statistics provided by the coronavirus monitoring body, the coronavirus claimed six more lives in Pakistan during the last 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 28,927.
“A total of 47,856 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, out of which 515 turned out to be positive, showing an infection rate of 1.07 per cent as compared to yesterday’s 0.95 per cent,” the NCOC added. At present, 633 critical patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country, it added.
Punjab remains the worst-hit province in terms of deaths followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Till now 13,066 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab, 7,670 in Sindh 5,928 in KP, 967 in Islamabad, 746 in Azad Kashmir, 364 in Balochistan, and 186 in GB.
On Thursday, as many as five more travelers coming from Saudi Arabia tested positive for COVID-19 at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi.
According to details, the tests came positive after authorities conducted rapid antigen tests of the passengers coming from Saudi Arabia.
“They had been shifted to a quarantine centre in Korangi from Karachi airport,” they said adding that a genome sequencing on samples collected from them would also be conducted in order to ascertain if they are being infected by an Omicron variant or not.
