By Ajmal Khan Yousafzai
ISLAMABAD: 38 people died in the last 24 hours from coronavirus-related complications and 1,329 others tested positive for the contagious disease, National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) data showed Sunday.
According to the NCOC update, the new infections were detected from 41,395 samples collected and tested a day earlier.
With the new cases, the death toll jumped to 12,601 while the number of positive cases stood at 571,174. The number of active cases has come down to 24,446 as over 534,000 people have recovered from the disease.
So far, Sindh reported 255,834 cases; Punjab 167,345; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) 70,886; Balochistan 18,979; Islamabad 43,402; Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) 9,777 and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) 4,951.
Meanwhile, the Punjab government announced the establishment of a committee to monitor the vaccination drive. Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Secretary Captain (r) Muhammad Usman said the committee will work under the supervision of concerned deputy commissioners. “The district vaccine management committees will strictly monitor the vaccination drive,” he said.
The govt launched a nationwide vaccination drive on February 2, a day after around 500,000 doses of vaccine produced by Sinopharm and donated by China had arrived in Pakistan. As per the roll-out plan, the vaccine will first be made available to more than 400,000 doctors and frontline healthcare workers, teachers and social workers because they run the highest risk of exposure to the contagious disease.
