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ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The national tally on Wednesday of total active COVID-19 cases recorded 84,480 with 4,113 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 5,665 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours. While, the Punjab government have decided to enforce a complete lockdown in the provinces from May 8.
According to the latest update issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), one hundred and nineteen corona patients have died during past 24 hours, 106 of whom were under treatment in hospital and 13 out of the hospital in their respective quarantines or homes,.
During the past 24 hours, most of the deaths have occurred in the Punjab followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Out of the total 119 deaths occurred in the last 24 hours 38 of them had died who were under treatment on ventilators.
: A private pathology laboratory claims to have detected two cases of the South African variant of coronavirus in Punjab. Reuters/File
LAHORE: A private pathology laboratory claims to have detected two cases of the South African variant of coronavirus in Punjab and also confirmed predominance of the UK variant here during the third wave of the pandemic.
It stated that a research was carried out by the lab’s departments of virology and molecular genetics for which 62 Covid-19 samples had been collected at random at the end of March to be tested for their variant types.
The study concluded that 60 out of the 62 samples (97 per cent) contained the B.1.17 lineage (UK variant) and the remaining two had the B.1.351 lineage (South African variant) detected through a genomic study. It also concluded that the absence of the early variant of the virus (from Wuhan) indicated that the virus had mutated itself completely from the original strain.