Islamabad
May 5, 2021
Rawalpindi : The number of patients being tested positive for coronavirus illness, COVID-19 from Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi district is on a decline for the last one-and-a-half weeks or so however, according to senior officials at the health departments, it is too early to assume that the outbreak is losing intensity in terms of morbidity and mortality.
In the last 24 hours, another 392 patients have been confirmed positive for the illness from the region taking the tally to 98,882 while the virus claimed another four lives from the region taking the death toll to 1,593. It is, however, encouraging that another 18,159 individuals including healthcare workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19 from the region taking the total number of persons so far vaccinated from the twin cities to 273,378.