{"id":8908,"date":"2022-06-23T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:23:06","slug":"covid-19-in-pakistan-karachis-positivity-ratio-exceeds-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/covid-19-in-pakistan-karachis-positivity-ratio-exceeds-21\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in Pakistan: Karachi&#8217;s positivity ratio exceeds 21%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The COVID-19 positivity ratio has exceeded 21% in Karachi as the spread of the infection sees a swift rise across the city and the rest of the country, data by the National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) showed Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 138 new infections were detected in the metropolis when 650 samples were tested, taking the city&#8217;s positivity rate to 21.23%.<\/p>\n<p>The second most affected city is Abbotabad, where the positivity rate is 8.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the countrywide COVID-19 positivity rate crossed the 2% mark for the first time in three months amid a steady rise in fresh cases of coronavirus all over the country.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/german-fm-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German FM tests positive for coronavirus in Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last time Pakistan&#8217;s positivity ratio was 2% was on March 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>As per the latest stats, as many as 268 new cases of COVID-19 were reported from the country during the last 24 hours, taking the positivity rate to 2.14%. The fresh infections were detected during the diagnostic testing on 12,513 samples.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 75 people infected with COVID-19 are in critical care units while one person succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Too high&#8217;: Dr Zafar Mirza<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former special assistant to the prime minister on health Dr Zafar Mirza said that the countrywide spread of COVID-19 is not alarming, but in Karachi, the cases &#8220;too high&#8221;. He, however, said that Karachi&#8217;s COVID-19 situation is still not bad enough to panic. Instead, special surveillance is needed in the city, he opined.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further on the surge in infections, Dr Mirza said that focused action is required which includes implementation of SOPs, efficient data collection and more testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The COVID-19 positivity ratio has exceeded 21% in Karachi as the spread of the infection sees a swift rise across the city and the rest of the country, data by the National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) showed Thursday morning. A total of 138 new infections were detected in the metropolis when 650 samples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1448,3254,3255,306],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-covid-19-positivity-ratio","tag-national-institute-of-health","tag-nih","tag-karachi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","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=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}