Friday marked the day Pakistan’s Covid-19 recoveries exceeded one million. The National Command and Operation Centre’s data, however. also showed that the virus death toll is also closing in on the 25,000 mark.
The NCOC counted 1,002,430 recovered cases after 3,027 more survivors were recorded today. Meanwhile, 70 more people lost their lives to the disease, raising the death toll to 24,783.
The number of active or currently ill patients are 89,673, which is the highest since May 2 when the country recorded 89,661 active cases. The infection tally also rose to 1,116,886 with 3,239 new cases reported over the last 24 hours after 51,982 Covid-19 tests were conducted, the NCOC stats showed.
Pakistan’s daily positivity rate — rate of infected patients among those tested — is 6.23 per cent out of 51,982 tests as of August 20. This is above the recommended rate by the World Health Organization, which is below 5 per cent.
