Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: All the Covid-19 indicators in Pakistan have again started moving up as the country diagnosed another 21 coronavirus infections with no fatality during the last 24 hours (Wednesday).
According to the figures released by the National Institute of Health Thursday morning, the death toll in the country remained the same at 30,640 whereas the number of total infections have now risen to 1,576,221 after adding the 21 fresh cases.
Infection positivity indicator
During the last 24 hours (Wednesday), 4,416 tests were conducted throughout Pakistan whereas the positivity ratio climbed to 0.48 percent. The number of patients in critical care stood at 12, according to the NIH data.
Meanwhile, the number of daily Covid-19 deaths in China has fallen by nearly 80 percent since the start of the new year, authorities have said. This suggests that the country’s unprecedented infection surge may have started to abate. The wave of virus cases has washed over the world’s most populous nation since Beijing abruptly ended its zero-Covid policy in December.
Around 13,000 people had died from Covid-related diseases between January 13 and 19 in China, adding to a previous figure of around 60,000 people those had succumbed to the virus in hospitals in just over one month.
But recent media reports and local government announcements have indicated that the wave may have started to recede since peaking in late December 2022 and early January 2023 when hospitals and crematoriums were packed.
As many as 896 deaths were attributable to the virus in hospitals on Monday, suggesting a decline of 79 percent from January 4, said China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a statement on Wednesday.
