Gradual decrease in COVID-19 cases

LAHORE: Punjab Primary & Secondary Healthcare Department Secretary Sarah Aslam has said a gradual decrease in COVID-19 infection rate has been witnessed in the province.

According to a handout issued here on Sunday, during a daily review meeting of activities of COVID-19 across the Punjab, it was informed that 146 new cases have been reported, bringing the total number of cases to 346,728. Until now 327,753 patients have fully recovered across the province while the number of active cases is 8,203.

In the last 24 hours, 17,406 test samples were taken while a total of 5,708,442 tests have been taken so far. In the previous 24 hours, coronavirus caused five more deaths across the province, including two in Lahore, bringing the total number of deaths to 10,772.

Last day, 70 cases were reported in Lahore, 38 in Rawalpindi, 6 in Multan, 4 in Gujranwala, 4 in Sialkot, 3 in Rahim Yar Khan, 3 in Sargodha, 2 in Faisalabad, 2 in Mianwali, 1 in Bahawalnagar, 1 in Bahawalpur, 1 in Chakwal, 1 in Gujrat, 1 in Hafizabad. 1 in Khanewal, 1 in Khushab, 1 in Mandi Bahauddin, 1 in Muzafargarh,1 in Narowal and 1 in Sheikhupura.

On Saturday, the average positivity ratio of Covid-19 was 0.8 in all the cities across the province. Lahore recorded a positivity ratio of 1.6, 0.2 in Faisalabad, 0.8 in Multan and 0.4 in Sargodha. Secretary Sarah Aslam said Vaccines for Covid-19 are available in abundance at all centres so all citizens over the age of 18 must be vaccinated against the coronavirus.