By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases was recorded as 89,334, one of the highest during fourth wave of pandemic on Sunday with 3,842 more people testing positive for the deadly virus and 3,477 people recovering from the disease during the last 24 hours.
75 corona patients have died during past 24 hours, 70 of whom were under treatment in the hospitals and five of them were perished in their respective quarantines or homes, according to the latest update issued by the National command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
Most of the deaths occurred in Sindh followed by Punjab. Out of the total 75 deaths occurred, 28 of them were under treatment on ventilators. There were 5,301 Covid infected patients under treatment in critical condition with 150 infected people admitted during past 24 hours in various Covid dedicated healthcare facilities of the country.
The National Covid positivity ratio during past 24 hours was recorded 7.1 percent. The Covid positivity ratio is the percentage of actual positive cases appearing in every 100 tests performed to identify infected individuals. The maximum ventilators were occupied in four major cities including Islamabad 43 percent, Bahawalpur 66 percent, Peshawar 42 percent and Multan 69 percent.
The maximum Oxygen beds (alternate oxygen providing facility other than ventilator administered as per medical requirement of COVID patient) was also occupied in four major cities of Abbottabad 75 percent, Swat 83 percent, Swabi 67 percent, and Peshawar 52 percent.
Around 496 ventilators were occupied elsewhere in the country while no COVID affected person was on ventilator in Balochistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). Some 53,527 tests were conducted across the country on Saturday, including 16,306 in Sindh, 20,220 in Punjab, 9,567 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 3,938 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 1,657 in Balochistan, 851 Gilgit Baltistan (GB) and 988 in AJK.
