Pakistan sees record Covid deaths and considers new lockdown Mayank Aggarwal
Pakistan’s government is considering a stricter lockdown as the country witnesses record Covid-19 deaths.
On Tuesday, it recorded 201 coronavirus deaths – a first since the start of the pandemic – taking Pakistan’s overall death toll so far to 17,530. The previous highest recorded daily death count was 157 on 23 April.
It also recorded 5,292 new cases of Covid-19, taking the total to 810,231. The national positivity ratio, the number of infections among those tested, was 10.8 per cent while the death rate, the number of infections resulting in fatalities, hit the highest point since the start of the pandemic, reaching around 2.2 per cent.
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