Pakistan records lowest single day rise in coronavirus cases in a year

Students wearing facemasks arrive at a school in Peshawar on September 16, 2021. (AFP)

• 618 new infections recorded on October 19 last year, on October 20 this year 554 new cases reported
• The government has administered a total of at least 93,551,193 doses of COVID vaccines so far

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 554 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the lowest number of COVID-19 cases recorded in a single day since October last year, health ministry data showed on Wednesday.
The South Asian country has reported 1,266,204 total infections and 28,312 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began. The government has administered a total of at least 93,551,193 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs two doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 21.6 percent of the country’s population.
Pakistan’s pandemic response body, the NCOC, announced on Twitter on Wednesday that the country had recorded 554 daily infections in the last 24 hours. This is the lowest since October 19, 2020, when 618 cases were reported.

Statistics 20 Oct 21:
Total Tests in Last 24 Hours: 42,126
Positive Cases: 554
Positivity %: 1.31%
Deaths : 12
Patients on Critical Care: 1783

— NCOC (@OfficialNcoc) October 20, 2021

More than 1.2 million people have so far recovered from the coronavirus in Pakistan, while 1,783 people remain in critical care in hospitals across the country.