Big progress against polio and pandemic

Pakistan continues to make progress in battle against Covid-19 with the positivity rate below 6 per cent yesterday for the third consecutive day.

According to the Ministry of the National Health Services’ (NHS) coronavirus dashboard, the country’s positivity rate remained 5.08 per cent yesterday, reveals NHS ministry’s data.

Meanwhile, Pakistan reported no case of polio in the past seven months which has never happened before. Special Assistant on National Health Services Dr Faisal Sultan while addressing an event in Islamabad, Friday, said it was a milestone reached and the government would make sure battle against polio virus is won with participation of all stakeholders.

On the Covid-19 front, 2,928 people were diagnosed positive against 57,626 tests conducted during the past 24 hours.

There were 65,725 active cases of Covid-19, again a significant decline from 76,581 a day earlier.

This is for the first time that active cases have been reported less than 70,000 since July.