Dr Faisal seeks citizens’ support in fight against COVID-19 second wave

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ISLAMABAD: : Dr Faisal Sultan Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination on Tuesday asked the citizens to support government’s efforts in effectively dealing with the second wave of COVID-19 by adopting all preventive measures against the disease.

In a media briefing, he said that COVID-19 case positivity ratio reached at 7.50% which was only 2% when the situation was under control, terming it hazardous condition.

He said that the disease positivity ratio is observed with total number of positive cases in per 100 persons.

He added violation of SOPs related with the COVID-19 was the main reason behind this increasing trend as people started ignoring all preventive measures.

He said that during normal situation daily death figure from the disease was just six to eight while in last 24 hours the death figure was 48 which was very high as compared with the past situation.

According to the latest statistics, 3,009 tested positive for COVID-19 during the last twenty-four hours after the tests of 41,583 people.

The figure of patients recovered from the virus has reached 332,974. There are now 42,115 active cases in the country. 

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