Pakistan’s daily coronavirus cases fell below 1,500 for the first time in more than two months as it reported 1,400 fresh cases on Tuesday morning, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) data showed.
The country last reported less than 1,500 cases was on July 23 when the number was 1,425.
The number of active cases, too, went to the lowest level at 49,968 cases. The active cases, along with the positivity rate, have been consistently falling since the last month with new recoveries surpassing fresh cases reported almost daily. Among the active cases, 4,015 patients are under critical care.
Another 41 people, meanwhile, lost their lives to the infection in the last 24 hours, pushing the national death tally to 27,638. This makes it the fourth consecutive day the country has reported less than 50 deaths in a single day.
With 2,042 recoveries in the same period, the tally for recoveries now stands at 1,164,219, NCOC data showed.
The positivity ratio stands at 3.17 percent across the country. Two days ago, Pakistan’s positivity rate went below 4 percent for the first time in almost four months.
Pakistan has administered at least 76,141,484 doses of coronavirus vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs two doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 17.6 percent of the country’s population.
During the last week, Pakistan averaged about 767,771 doses administered each day. At that rate, it will take a further 57 days to administer enough doses for another 10 percent of the population.
