NCOC notes highest daily Covid cases

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan logged the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases ever since the pandemic started in 2020 after 8,183 people tested positive in a single day, according to the National Command and Operation Centre’s (NCOC) data.
As per the data, the daily COVID-19 death toll also reached a new high since October 6, 2021, as 30 more people succumbed to the virus in a single day.
A total of 39 people died of COVID-19 on October 6, 2021.
According to the statistics issued by the NCOC, 68,624 diagnostic tests were conducted across the country in the last 24 hours, of which 8,183 came back positive, pushing the total number of cases reported so far to 1,402,070.
With the detection of new cases, the country’s current positivity rate swelled to 11.92%, while the active case count stands at 98,221.
Meanwhile, 1,786 people infected with COVID-19 recuperated overnight, taking the total number of recuperations to 1,274,657.
A day earlier, the NCOC decided to extend coronavirus curbs in the country from January 31 till February 15, as thousands continue to contract the infection amid a spread of the Omicron variant.
The NCOC had imposed non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on January 19, which were to be reviewed on January 27 in light of the COVID-19 situation in the country.
The restrictions for the wedding sector were already imposed till Feb 15.