Islamabad: Pakistan’s government warned of the third and deadliest wave of COVID-19 in the context of the COVID-19 case outbreak.
The new phenomenon, according to the Minister of Planning, Commission and Special Initiative, Asad Umar, is related to the British strain, which is already known to be transmitted more and spreads faster than the Wuhan (China) strain.
Umar said that since Pakistan’s first death in March last year and so far in 2021, the mortality rate has obviously been higher and “we had a hypothesis that it might be similar to this strain, but now the foreign report has also established it. “
Cities with more Pakistanis living in the UK have a higher rate of positivity.
“So this is very damaging that is unfolding,” the minister said.
New coronavirus cases continue in Pakistan and 2,338 new cases were reported on Saturday.
The country’s infections have already surpassed the alarming 600,000, and with these new instances, the total number of instances is 602,536, similarly, with 46 deaths reported in a day, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country is 13,476.
The COVID-19 positivity rate remained at 5. 5% on Saturday and for the official Department of National Health Services (NHS) portal, the number of active instances had increased to 19,764.
With another 1,231 people recovered in the last 24 hours, the number of instances recovered also increased to 569,296.
In the context of the onsl ordinance, the Peshawar and Lahore government has to re-impose a smart blockade in various areas.
In Lahore, the local government decided 16 more communities for this goal after an outbreak of coronavirus cases there.
The notification issued through the Punjab Department of Primary and Secondary Health Care indicates that there has been a stable accumulation in the percentage of positivity in COVID-19 instances in the city, posing a serious public health risk.
According to the notification, a smart closure was imposed in five cantonment spaces, two locations in the city of Data Ganj Bakhsh, 3 spaces in the city of Nishtar, 4 districts of the city of Samanabad and one locality in each of the towns of Shalimar. and Wagah.
In Peshawar, too, intelligent microbreeding is imposed in four districts of the provincial capital. According to the notification, a smart padlock was imposed on Calle nine of Sector E-11 Phase I and Street Five of sector FV Phase VI, Hayatabad, Gulbahar Street Four and 11th Street of Colonia Defensa.
According to the notification, general access or exit from these communities will not be permitted through anyone who supplies essential products.
Meanwhile, vaccination of the elderly (over the age of 60) is ongoing and according to the district’s head of aptitude (DHO) in Islamabad, Dr. Zaeem Zia, another 1,566 people have been vaccinated at vaccination centers in the federal capital in the past year. 3 days.
Since the launch of vaccination for the general public, centres have been established in hospitals, hospitals at Tehsil headquarters (THQ) and rural gyms where others get the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine for free. after 21 days, DHO said.
Also in Karachi, the elderly are being vaccinated and, as of 12 March, another 1,520 people had won COVID-19 vaccines.
The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has extended its three-tier advice through March 18.
In the modified notice for travellers on 2 March, 15 countries were classified in category C, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Portugal, Peru, the Netherlands, Tanzania, Botswana, Colombia, Comoros, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Zambia, Brazil and Mozambique.
The performance was valid until March 14, but after re-evaluating the most recent COVID-19 situation, it lasted until March 18, according to a notification issued through Air Transport Director Irfan Sabir.
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