{"id":9800,"date":"2022-08-03T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9800"},"modified":"2022-08-03T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:26:48","slug":"covid-19-positivity-rate-nears-4-as-pakistan-reports-nine-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/covid-19-positivity-rate-nears-4-as-pakistan-reports-nine-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 positivity rate nears 4% as Pakistan reports nine deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 positivity rate nears 4% as Pakistan reports nine deaths. Pakistan has reported 806 fresh COVID-19 cases and nine coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIH_Pakistan\"> National Institute of Health<\/a>&#8216;s (NIH) data showed Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>During the last 24 hours, a total of 20,949 COVID-19 diagnostic tests were conducted, of which 806 samples came back positive, the institution&#8217;s data showed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COVID-19 Statistics 03 August 2022<br \/>Total Tests in Last 24 Hours: 20,949<br \/>Positive Cases: 806<br \/>Positivity %: 3.85%<br \/>Deaths: 09<br \/>Patients on Critical Care: 160<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NIH Pakistan (@NIH_Pakistan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIH_Pakistan\/status\/1554650258159853568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the detection of new cases, the COVID-19 positivity ratio stood at 3.85%, moving up from 2.84%, which was recorded a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/maryam-nawaz-again-tests-positive-for-coronavirus.html\">Maryam Nawaz again tests positive for coronavirus<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to NIH&#8217;s data, 160 COVID-19 patients are being treated in\u00a0 intensive-care units (ICU) across the country at different medical facilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistanis advised to mask up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Pakistan logging hundreds of COVID-19 cases every day, the NIH has advised strict adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs), including mask wearing and social distancing during Muharram gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering and majalis to remember the Shuhada-e-Karbala (martyrs of Karbala) have started as the country observes the new Islamic year \u2014 which began on Sunday (July 31).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the SOPs for Muharram?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NIH has restricted the elderly and children from attending the gatherings and majalis during Ashura in a COVID-safe manner, as the risk of another outbreak looms with an uptick of the virus across Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 positivity rate nears 4% as Pakistan reports nine deaths. Pakistan has reported 806 fresh COVID-19 cases and nine coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the National Institute of Health&#8216;s (NIH) data showed Wednesday morning. During the last 24 hours, a total of 20,949 COVID-19 diagnostic tests were conducted, of which 806 samples came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3907,584,3254,3255,623],"class_list":["post-9800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-corona-sops","tag-covid-19","tag-national-institute-of-health","tag-nih","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800","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=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}