{"id":11593,"date":"2021-08-12T07:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T07:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2021-08-12T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T07:07:52","slug":"deadly-covid-19-wave-kills-over-100-in-pakistan-for-first-time-in-nearly-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2021\/08\/12\/deadly-covid-19-wave-kills-over-100-in-pakistan-for-first-time-in-nearly-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly COVID-19 wave kills over 100 in Pakistan for first time in nearly three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported on Thursday more than 100 deaths from coronavirus after a nearly three months.<\/p>\n<p>The country last reported more than a 100 deaths on May 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data provided on the National Command and Operation Centre&#8217;s (NCOC) official website, about 102 people lost their lives to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the countrywide death tally to 24,187.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-embeds\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronavirus\" src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/765e5454-b209-40e0-b955-03d30a53fbb3?src=embed\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-embeds-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the NCOC, 59,397 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. Of these, 4,934 came back positive.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the country reported a positivity rate of 8.30%.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts have raised concerns over the mushrooming cases as Pakistan has reported 1,085,294 COVID-19 cases so far.<\/p>\n<p>The number of active cases stands at 85,633, with the nationwide recoveries rising to 975,474.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, coronavirus cases across Pakistan haven&#8217;t declined or risen significantly, however, Sindh lifted its lockdown Monday. Revised COVID-19 restrictions, which will last till August 31, have been announced by the Sindh government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported on Thursday more than 100 deaths from coronavirus after a nearly three months. The country last reported more than a 100 deaths on May 20, 2021. According to the data provided on the National Command and Operation Centre&#8217;s (NCOC) official website, about 102 people lost their lives to the coronavirus in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}