NCOC data shows slight increase in active Covid cases

The national tally of active Covid-19 cases was rose slightly to 22,852, as 567 more people tested positive for the deadly virus while 445 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Saturday.

The NCOC which serves as the nerve centre of the government’s anti-pandemic strategy, said in its daily update of the disease that national Covid positivity ratio, which remained less than 1.5% for the past few weeks, also rose to 1.2% during the past 24 hours.

The forum said that 11 patients, three of them on ventilators, died during the last 24 hours, raising the nationwide death toll to 28,518. It added that most of the deaths, 4, occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) followed by 3 in Punjab.

Since the pandemic outbreak in the country in February 2020, the national caseload of the disease had risen to 1,276,240. Among them 1,224,870 people had recovered from the infectious disease, depicting a more than 90% recovery ratio.