Over 81% Covid-19 patients in Pakistan recover

Sindh claims 86% of its coronavirus patients have recovered

ISLAMABAD:

. The coronavirus curve is flattening in Pakistan as more that 81% of Covid-19 patient have recovered in the country. The rate of recovery in Sindh – which also has the greatest number of coronavirus patients – is 86%.

According to the latest data on the pandemic issued by National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Friday, 270,400 people have so far got infected by disease in the country and 219,783 of them have already recovered.

The NCOC statement put the total number of active coronavirus cases in Pakistan at 44,854. Interesting, only 1,209 cases were reported on Thursday. “[There are] 734 hospitals with Covid-19 facilities with 2,241 patients admitted across the country,” said the NCOC statement.

“As of today, more than 100,000 patients have recovered from #COVID19 in #Sindh. This is 86% of the total patients in the province,” claimed Murtaza Wahab, Sindh chief minister’s adviser on law and information, in a post on micro-blogging site Twitter.

On July 23, 22,006 coronavirus tests were conducted all over the country. The NCOC said 9,804 tests were conducted in Sindh; 7,386 in Punjab; 1,977 in K-P; 2,351 in Islamabad; 76 in Balochistran; 71 in the G-B and 341 in the AJK.

On Thursday, 54 people lost their lives due to Covid-19, 49 of which died in hospitals.

So far 5,763 people have died of the disease all over the country. Some 2,096 died in Sindh, 2,105 in Punjab, 1,169 in Khyber Pakhtunkwa (K-P), 136 in Balochistan, 162 in Islamabad, 46 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 49 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

The NCOC holds a meeting every day to take stock of the pandemic and implements decisions of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) on coronavirus.