Over 5,800 cases and 98 deaths registered in a day

Lahore records 18.57 per cent positivity rate

Lahore continues to report a spike in covid-19 cases and according to the Primary & Secondary Health department of Punjab, the provincial capital’s positivity rate yesterday remained at 18.57 per cent, which is a record in the current year.

In the past 24 hours, 1,466 people tested positive in the city. Overall, 28,829 tests were conducted in Punjab during last twenty-four hours revealing that 2,909 persons were infected in the province in one day.

Positivity rate remained 10 per cent in Punjab.

Covid-19 assumed alarming proportions in the country yesterday as 5,875 new cases

were reported in the past 24 hours. The number of patients on ventilators has also gone up from 455 to 522 and according to the official data released by the Ministry of the National Health Services, 98 people succumbed to coronavirus in one day while the number of active cases in the country surged to 84,935.