The single-day tally of new coronavirus cases stayed below 1,000 for second consecutive day on Tuesday, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said, the lowest level of the Covid-19 spread in four and a half months.
The NCOC, which serves as the nerve centre of the government’s unified effort to contain the pandemic, reported 958 new infections in the last 24 hours in its daily bulletin on Tuesday. On Monday, it put the new cases’ tally at 837.
The last time the country witnessed less than 1,000 new cases was on October 31, 2020, when the NCOC had reported 977 cases. Since then the number spiked and by December it soared to more than 3,000 cases every day.
According to the official data, the national tally of total active Covid-19 cases went slightly down to 25,383 as 1,064 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours. During the same period, the NCOC said 47 patients, including 42 in hospitals, died of the deadly contagion.
Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 564,824 cases were detected that also included the nationwide death toll, recovered and under treatment Covid-19 patients so far. Around 527,061 people have recovered from the disease so far making it a significant recovery ratio of over 90%.
As of Tuesday, the countrywide death toll stood at 12,380 – 4,226 in Sindh; 5,084 in Punjab; 2,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P); 486 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT); 199 in Balochistan, 102 in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) and 283 in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK).
A total of 8,498,022 corona tests have been conducted so far, including 31,905 tests conducted across the country on Monday, the NCOC update said. It added that 2,101 patients were admitted in hospitals across the country. (WITH INPUT FROM APP)
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