July 16, 2021
Rawalpindi : As many as 204 new patients were tested positive for coronavirus illness, COVID-19 from Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi district in the last 24 hours taking the tally to 109537 while one patient died of the illness from the federal capital taking the death toll from the twin cities to 1790.
It is, however, more alarming that the positivity rate of COVID-19 from the Rawalpindi district has been recorded as 5.56 per cent in the last 24 hours that had dropped down to around one per cent some two weeks back. Out of a total of 1,186 samples tested for COVID-19 in the district in the last 24 hours, 66 were reported positive, said In-charge District COVID-19 Cell Rawalpindi Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Jawad Zahid.