According to the NCOC’s latest stats, the national positivity ratio fell to 4.78% in the last 24 hours. Last time, on July 24, the country’s positivity rate was less than 5 percent. 56,733 corona-virus tests were taken in the last 24 hours. This tolls the total number of corona cases in Pakistan to 1,212,809.
Moreover, in the past 24 hours, another 73 people have died of COVID-19, taking the death toll to 26,938. Whereas, 359,539 people were fully vaccinated. The total recoveries crossed the 1.1 million mark after 10,923 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours.
However, there is a small downward trend in daily numbers, with active cases going under 80,000 for the first time since early August. COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Pakistan, with 3,406 new cases reported on average each day.
Pakistan has administered at least 890,980 doses of COVID vaccines in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of vaccines to 70,402,987 till now.