Not a single COVID-19 related death was reported in Pakistan on Wednesday, according to the country’s planning minister, Asad Umar, who also heads NCOC, the body overseeing the pandemic.
This is the first day with zero deaths recorded since the advent of Coronavirus two years back in March 2020.
“Alhamdulillah no COVID-related deaths reported in the country in the last 24 hours,” said the Planning Minister and head of NCOC, Asad Umar in a recent tweet. “This is the first time in two years that this has happened,” he mentioned.
Pakistan reported its first death from coronavirus in March 2020, which has now reduced to zero while the country is still fighting with the fifth wave of COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the omicron variant.
Latest stats of COVID in Pakistan:
According to the updated data issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Wednesday;
- The national positivity rate is 1.28 per cent
- 443 new cases of COVID were reported over the past 24 hours
- not a single death related to Covid-19 reported in last 24 hrs
Updated stats of vaccine administration in Pakistan:
The NCOC’s data released regarding the ratio of administered vaccines across the country is given below:
- 219,368,557 doses of vaccine have been administered to the people
- 128,074,138 people have got at least one dose of the vaccine
- 101,881,176 people out of the total have become fully vaccinated
- 4,869,245 people have been administered with the booster dose.
Pakistan scraps all remaining COVID-19 restrictions
Asad Umar had already announced that the government was scrapping all the COVID-19 related restrictions across Pakistan.
“The pandemic has not ended yet but undergoing the ending phase,” Umar had said while addressing a press briefing at NCOC, flanked by SAPM on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan.
Continue following SOPs
However, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health Sciences Prof. Dr. Javed Akram has asked people to continue following the SOPs as the active cases are still around 500.
“A reasonable portion of the population has been vaccinated in the country and others have been infected due to which a short-term immunity has been developed in the masses, but the people should continue taking precautions and follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) because the number of cases is still around 500 and that can start multiplying rapidly again,” said Dr. Akram while talking to a news agency.