{"id":15213,"date":"2023-04-03T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2023-04-03T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:00:21","slug":"covid-19-positivity-rate-in-karachi-surges-to-over-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/covid-19-positivity-rate-in-karachi-surges-to-over-17\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 positivity rate in Karachi surges to over 17%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 positivity rate in Karachi surges to over 17%. As Pakistan continues to record an increase in COVID-19 cases, the positive rate in Karachi \u2014 the financial hub \u2014 climbs to 17.16%, making it the highest in the country, according to the data shared by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.org.pk\/\">National Institute of Health<\/a> (NIH) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As per the latest statistics, 55 fresh COVID-19 cases were detected across the country during the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 386 tests were conducted in Lahore out of which, seven cases were confirmed with a ratio of 1.81%, while 273 tests were conducted in Gujranwala out of which one case was confirmed. In Karachi, 134 tests were carried out and out of which, 23 were confirmed<\/p>\n<p>The overall case positivity ratio in the country stands at 1.85, while 14 patients were in critical condition. No death was reported from the virus in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Minister for National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel said the government has strengthened the role of Border and Health Services in Pakistan to deal with any sub-variant of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said there was a surveillance system at all entry points of the country including airports. There will be rapid tests and screening of passengers at all airports, he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/us-to-relax-covid-testing-rules-for-travelers-from-china.html\">US to relax Covid testing rules for travelers from China<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added that 90% of the country\u2019s population already got the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn efficient system with a proper management team is fully functional in the country to remain vigilant and is ready to make an emergency plan to deal with any sub-variant of Covid-19,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained the Border and Health Services Pakistan was ensuring the implementation of international health regulations.<\/p>\n<p>In case of any untoward situation, the health system was fully prepared to deal with any sub-variant of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 including BF.7 in the country, the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 positivity rate in Karachi surges to over 17%. As Pakistan continues to record an increase in COVID-19 cases, the positive rate in Karachi \u2014 the financial hub \u2014 climbs to 17.16%, making it the highest in the country, according to the data shared by the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Monday. As per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7997,584,3254,3255,623],"class_list":["post-15213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-abdul-qadir-patel","tag-covid-19","tag-national-institute-of-health","tag-nih","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}