• Pakistan Army donates vaccine, given by China, to frontline health workers
• CanSinoBio shows 74.48pc efficacy at preventing symptomatic cases
ISLAMABAD: While as many as 1,037 more cases of Covid-19 with positivity rate of 3.2 per cent were reported in a single day, the overall figure of deaths crossed the number of 12,000.
Moreover, the Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) has released analysis of CanSinoBio which showed that in Pakistan there was 74.48pc efficacy at preventing symptomatic cases and 100pc at preventing severe disease. However, international data of five countries showed 65.7pc efficacy at preventing symptomatic cases and 90.98pc at preventing severe disease.
According to data of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), released on Monday, since the start of the pandemic on Feb 26, 2020, as many as 12,026 deaths were reported. Of which, 4,900 deaths were reported from Punjab, 4,119 from Sindh and 1,957 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Islamabad reported 480 deaths, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) 272, Balochistan 196 and 102 deaths were reported from Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).