Nine more tested positive with Covid

Staff Report

RAWALPINDI: Nine more people were diagnosed with deadly coronavirus during the last 24 hours, raising the district’s tally of confirmed cases to 47,080. As per the latest data released by the District Health Authority here Wednesday, the total infected cases included 43,522 from Rawalpindi and 3,558 from other districts. Among the new cases, four arrived from Potohar Town, two from Rawal Town and Taxila and one from the Rawalpindi Cantonment area. “Presently, 77 confirmedpatients are quarantined at homes, and no one at the health facilities,” the report added.

The report further said that 6,977,315 people including 44,797 health
workers had jabbed themselves against the lethal coronavirus (COVID-19)
across the district since the vaccination administering drive launched on
March 10, 2021.

District Health Authority updated that during the last 24 hours, 819 samples
were collected out of which 810 were declared negative while the positivity
rate was recorded at 1.11 percent.