Pakistan records highest daily cases

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ISLAMABAD: In the past 24 hours, Pakistan recorded 6,808 new cases of COVID-19, the second highest number of daily cases since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, data shared by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC).

NCOC data indicates that the highest daily positive cases were recorded on June 13, 2020, when the country reported 6,825 coronavirus cases. The national positivity ratio also hit a nine-month high at 11.50% as the country saw a rapid rise in infections from the Omicron variant.

The highest positivity rate at 41% was recorded in Karachi followed by Muzaffarabad 25%, Hyderabad 17.27%, Islamabad 15.37%, Lahore 14.25%, Rawalpindi 12.75% and Peshawar 11.20% . All of these towns will face strict protocol with bans on indoor weddings and gatherings and 50% attendance in schools by students under the age of 12 on staggering days.

A total of 58,943 tests have been carried out, of which 6,808 were found positive while active cases also jumped to 51,094. After five more deaths, the death toll stands at 29,042.

Meanwhile, COVID-19 claimed 17 more deaths overnight in Sindh, including 13 in Karachi, while COVID-19 positivity hit 46.58% in the provincial capital, officials said, adding that 3,739 additional cases appeared in the province when 17,002 tests were carried out.

With an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Karachi where 3,289 people have tested positive for the infectious disease, hospitalizations have also started increasing and currently 368 people are under treatment in different hospitals, of which 306 are on oxygen at high and low speed. while 21 are on ventilators, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said in his daily Covid-19 situation report on Thursday.

The Chief Minister maintained that with 17 more deaths in Sindh, the death toll from Covid-19 has reached 7,727, representing a mortality rate of 1.5% and added that 17,002 samples have been tested, which detected 3,739 cases, or 22% of the current detection rate.

He informed that 7,419,686 tests were carried out against which 514,863 cases were diagnosed, of which 91.9% or 473,340 patients recovered, including 332 overnight.

Murad Ali Shah said that currently 33,796 patients are under treatment, of whom 33,398 are in home isolation, 30 in isolation centers and 368 in different hospitals, adding that the condition of 306 patients is considered critical, of whom 21 transferred to ventilators.

According to him, out of 3,739 new cases, 3,289 were detected in Karachi, including 1,345 East, 773 South, 655 Central, 261 Korangi, 145 Malir and 110 West. Similarly, Hyderabad has reported 145 cases, Naushero Feroze 34, Jamshoro 29, Tharparkar 20, Tando Muhammad Khan 19, Badin 16, Dadu 15, Thatta, Umerkot and Sanghar 12 each, Larkana 11, Tando Allahyar, Jacobabad, Khairpur and Mirpurkhas 10 each, Shikarpur nine, Ghotki five, Shaheed Benazirabad four and Matiari one.

Vaccination: Sharing vaccination data, the CM said that 32,462,394 doses of vaccine had been administered up to January 18, and added that in the past 24 hours, 237,284 people had been inoculated in total 32,699 678 doses of vaccine were administered, which constituted 59.01% of the vaccine-eligible population.

The Chief Minister urged the people of the province to follow the SOPs

By our correspondent

KARACHI: The Sindh government announced on Thursday that the ban on indoor dining in restaurants and eateries in Karachi and Hyderabad will start from January 21 (Friday) instead of the earlier notified January 24 date for this purpose.

Sindh’s additional chief secretary of interior department, Qazi Shahid Pervez, has issued a notification to that effect. The revised notification was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of Sindh considering the latest guidelines from the National Command and Operations Center for cities across the country with coronavirus positivity rate above 10%.

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