Islamabad, Rawalpindi witness sharp rise in corona patients

Rawalpindi : A sharp increase has been recorded in the number of coronavirus illness, COVID-19 cases reported from Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi district as another 104 patients have been tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours that is the highest number of cases reported in a day from the twin cities in the last four weeks.

The virus claimed another life from Rawalpindi district in the last 24 hours taking the death toll from the district to 994 on Friday while 779 patients from ICT had already died of COVID-19. Confirmation of 104 new cases took tally from the region to 107,636.

It is important that the number of cases being tested positive from the region has been registering a significant increase for the last three days with reporting of 226 new cases in the last 72 hours recording over 75 cases on average per day.

It is alarming that the number of active cases from the federal capital is also on the rise for the last two days as 71 active cases have been added to the existing pool of active cases from ICT in the last 48 hours.

According to In-charge District COVID-19 Cell Rawalpindi Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Jawad Zahid, a total of 27 patients have been tested positive in the district against 1324 tests conducted in the last 24 hours that amounts to a positivity rate of 2.03 per cent.

Data collected by ‘The News’ on Friday has revealed that another 73 patients have been tested positive from ICT and 31 from Rawalpindi district in the last 24 hours.

From Rawalpindi district, a total of 24,857 patients have so far been reported of which 994 have lost their lives while 23,711 have recovered from the illness. On Friday, there were a total of 152 active cases of the disease from Rawalpindi.

According to District Health Office Rawalpindi, as many as 21 patients belonging to the district were hospitalized in town while some 131 were in isolation at their homes on Friday.

To date, a total of 82,779 patients have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 from ICT of which 80,978 have recovered while 779 have lost their lives. On Friday, the number of active cases from the federal capital jumped to 1,022 after the addition of 50 active cases in the last 24 hours.