4 more perish to corona, 102 cases reported in a day

Rawalpindi : As many as four patients suffering from coronavirus illness, COVID-19 have died of the disease in the last 24 hours from Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi district while 102 new patients have been reported positive for the illness from the twin cities.

To date, a total of 106,144 confirmed patients have been reported from the region of which 1744 have lost their lives due to the illness.

The positivity rate of COVID-19 has been recorded as 2.53 per cent in Rawalpindi while in the federal capital, it was reported around 1.6 per cent in the last 24 hours. The weekly positivity from ICT, however, was around 2.1 per cent in the last week.

In-charge District COVID-19 Cell Rawalpindi Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Jawad Zahid informed ‘The News’ on Sunday that out of 1,461 samples tested for COVID-19 in the district, 37 have been confirmed positive in the last 24 hours amounting to a positivity rate of 2.53 per cent.

The virus has claimed two more lives from Rawalpindi district taking the death toll to 979. As many as 34 new patients belonging to Rawalpindi district have been tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours taking tally from the district to 24,444 of which 23,090 patients have recovered.

The number of active cases of the disease from Rawalpindi district was 375 on Sunday of which 34 confirmed patients were admitted to different healthcare facilities in town while 341 were in the home isolation.

From ICT, another two patients died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 765. Confirmation of another 74 patients positive from ICT has taken tally to 81,700 of which 77,874 patients have recovered. The number of active cases of the disease from the federal capital was recorded as 3,061 on Sunday.