Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases on Wednesday was recorded 66,377 with 3,256 new cases during the last 24 hours. According to the latest update issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 4,440 virus patients recovered and 104 died. Eighty-eight (88) were under treatment in the hospitals, 43 of them were on ventilators and 16 out of the hospitals in their respective quarantines or homes. Most of the deaths were occurred in Punjab followed by Sindh. There were 4,549 Covid infected patients under treatment in critical care among 188 admitted during past 24 hours in various Covid dedicated healthcare facilities.
The national Covid positivity ratio during past 24 hours was recorded 7.79 percent. The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major areas including Lahore 58 percent, Multan 68 percent, Bahawalpur 48 percent and Peshawar 37 percent.
The maximum Oxygen beds (alternate oxygen providing facility other than ventilator administered as per medical requirement of COVID patient) were also occupied in four major areas of Gujranwala 51 percent, Multan 60 percent, Swabi 47 percent and Peshawar 42 percent.
Around 567 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in the country while no COVID-19 affected person was on ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit Baltistan (GB) and Balochistan. Some 41,771 tests were conducted across the country on Tuesday.
