By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Covid-19 infection indicators in Pakistan have witnessed an uptick.
After a gap of a few months, another death was reported during the last 24 hours (Wednesday), showed the statistics released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Thursday morning.
The recent fatality was registered in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. According to the NIH data, the country’s death toll has risen to 30,641, whereas the number of infections has now climbed to 1,576,603 after adding the new 31 cases.
During the last 24 hours, 4,890 tests were conducted throughout Pakistan, whereas the positivity ratio also swelled to 0.63 percent. The number of patients in critical care stood at nine.
WHO is eager to get the answer’ on Covid origins
The World Health Organization will continue stressing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic began. The chief, following a report on Wednesday, suggested solving this mystery of where the SARS-CoV-2 virus came from and how it started spreading among humans is essential for averting pandemics in the future.
“Knowing how this pandemic started is very important and crucial,” he noted. Chief further added that he had recently sent a letter to a top official in China “asking for cooperation because we need cooperation and transparency in the information to know how this pandemic started.”
