ISLAMABAD, June 13 (DNA): The COVID-19 has killed 56 more people and
1,239 new positive cases of the infection have been reported in the
country during the last twenty-four hours.
According to the latest figures released on Sunday by the National
Command and Operation Centre (CNCO) , 36,368 tests were conducted in a
day while the positivity ratio remained at three point four zero
percent.
The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases was 42,290 while 1,610
people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.
Among the dead, 52 of whom were under treatment in the hospitals and
four out of the hospitals had perished in their respective quarantines
or homes, according to the latest update.
During the past 24 hours, most of the deaths have occurred in Punjab
followed by Sindh.
Out of the total 56 deaths occurred in the last 24 hours 22 of them had
died who were under treatment on ventilators.
There were 2,661 Covid infected patients under treatment in critical
care in various Covid dedicated healthcare facilities in the past 24
hours.
The National Covid positivity ratio during the past 24 hours was
recorded 3.4 percent.
The Covid positivity ratio was the percentage of actual positive cases
appearing in every 100 tests performed to identify infected individuals.
The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including
Peshawar 20 percent, Lahore 24 percent, Bahawalpur 24 percent and Multan
45 percent.
The maximum Oxygen beds (alternate oxygen providing facility other than
ventilator administered as per medical requirement of COVID patient) was
also occupied in four major areas of Gilgit 30 percent, Abbottabad 30
percent, Karachi 26 percent and Multan 26 percent.
Around 329 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in the country while no
COVID affected person was on ventilator in Balochistan, Azad Jammu and
Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB).
Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 941,170 cases were detected that
also included the perished, recovered and under treatment COVID-19
patients so far, including AJK 19,756, Balochistan 26,201, GB 5,707, ICT
82,099, KP 135,877, Punjab 343,926 and Sindh 327,604. DNA
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