The COVID-19 numbers in Pakistan are slowly improving, with the positivity rate increasing by nearly 2% in the last five days. According to the most recent data from the National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH), Karachi is the most affected city.
According to the most recent data, the country reported 309 new cases of COVID-19 in a single day, raising the positivity rate to 2.22 percent.
The new cases were discovered following diagnostic tests on 13,941 samples.
Meanwhile, 80 patients are being treated in intensive-care units at various medical facilities throughout the country. However, no coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours.
Furthermore, the positivity rate in Sindh rose to 6.1 percent, with Karachi alone accounting for 15.85 percent. Despite a significant drop in the city’s positivity rate since Thursday (21.23 percent), Karachi remains the most affected city in the country.
According to NIH data, the second most affected city in the country is Mardan, which has a COVID-19 positivity rate of 4.76 percent.
Sindh health department orders strict implementation of SOPs
Concerns about a sixth COVID-19 wave have been expressed by the Sindh health department in a letter to the Karachi and Hyderabad commissioners. The health department directed the commissioners to ensure that COVID-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) were strictly followed in the two cities.
Mask-wearing, social distancing, checking vaccination cards, and limiting public transportation occupancy to 70% are among the SOPs.
The health department is concerned about the spread of the COVID-19 subvariants BA-5 and BA-4.
