ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity rate dropped to less than one percent in the last 24 hours, the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic in the country in February 2020.
According to official data compiled by the National Command and Operations Center, the country’s top pandemic body, Pakistan has witnessed a steady decline in the coronavirus cases in the last couple of months.
The South Asian country has reported over 1.27 million infections and 28,558 related deaths since the emergence of the pandemic.
In view of the recent decline in the number of COVID-19 cases, the government decided to ease virus-related restrictions across the country.
Pakistan recorded 400 new coronavirus cases and 11 deaths in the last 24 hours. The data showed that 1,206 patients were still in critical care.
Officials say the COVID-19 curve has flattened in Pakistan due to an aggressive vaccination drive carried out by the government, with over 111 million people having received at least one dose of a vaccine since February this year.
So far, about 44 million people have been fully vaccinated in Pakistan which has a population of 220 million.
