ISLAMABAD: The COVID-19 situation in Pakistan continues to worsen as 95 more people lost their lives overnight in the country, the highest single-day death toll amid the fourth wave of the pandemic.
Earlier on May 20, Pakistan had recorded 131 deaths.
With the fresh fatalities, the country’s total COVID-19 death toll reached 23,797, according to data from the National Command and Operation Centers (NCOC), shown on Saturday morning.
Pakistan on Saturday reported 4,720 new infections, raising the total caseload to 1,063,125. NCOC data showed that 57,233 tests were conducted to test for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
However, some 959,491 patients have been cured so far, while the number of active cases has reached 79,837.
It would be pertinent to mention here that the infection has increased rapidly in Pakistan in recent times, currently the positivity rate is 8.24%.
Earlier this week, the COVID-19 positivity rate exceeded 9% for the first time in nearly three months. The country last recorded a coronavirus positivity rate of 9.12% on May 10.
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