Infection rate drops to 21pc
The daily infection rate of Covid-19 has been dropping consistently over the last couple of weeks.
The rate began to rise from June and it reached 21 percent on June 25. From there, it went up further and surged to 33 percent.
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Yesterday, after 50 days, the infection rate dropped to 21 percent. The same day, the country witnessed the lowest death toll in three weeks.
At least 197 more deaths were recorded from Covid-19 in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
On July 24, the death toll was 195 and after that it remained over 200-mark every day until yesterday.
The number of Covid-19 deaths in the country now stands at 23,810 and the death rate is 1.69 percent.
At least 8,465 fresh infections were recorded during the period, taking the number of people infected to 14,05,333, added the release.
The current positivity rate is 20.83 percent, while the overall positivity rate stands at 16.85 percent.
Some 40,641 samples were tested across the country during the period. At least 11,457 Covid-19 patients recovered at that time.
Around 83,42,190 people have so far recovered and the recovery rate is 90.62 percent.
Among the 197 deceased, 108 were men and 89 women.
Of them, one was aged between 0 and 10; one within 11-20; seven were aged between 21 and 30; three between 31 and 40; 17 between 41 and 50; 43 between 51 and 60; 62 between 61 and 70; 41 within 71-80; 18 between 81 and 90; three within 91-100; and one was above 100 years old, added the release.
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