{"id":12073,"date":"2021-09-17T07:28:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T07:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=12073"},"modified":"2021-09-17T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T07:28:04","slug":"active-covid-19-cases-continue-downward-trend-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2021\/09\/17\/active-covid-19-cases-continue-downward-trend-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Active COVID-19 cases continue downward trend in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The number of active coronavirus cases continued to decline as Pakistan reported less than 70,000 active cases for the first time since July 31 Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The National Command and Operation Centre&#8217;s latest coronavirus report showed 2,928 new COVID-19 cases after\u00a057,626 tests were taken in the last 24 hours, bringing the country&#8217;s total case count to 1,218,749.<\/p>\n<p>Those new cases were outpaced by 13,716 recoveries in the last 24 hours, pulling down active cases to 65,725. The number of active cases has fallen consistently over the last four days. As of now, some 1,125,952 patients have recovered since the pandemic started.<\/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>Meanwhile, NCOC reported another 68 deaths from coronavirus over the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 27,072.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The country&#8217;s positivity rate stands at\u00a05.08%.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Pakistan, with 3,089 new infections reported on average each day. That\u2019s 53% of the peak \u2014 the highest daily average reported on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has administered at least 70,402,987 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that\u2019s enough to have vaccinated about 16.3% of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>During the last week reported, Pakistan averaged about 954,803 doses administered each day. At that rate, it will take a further 46 days to administer enough doses for another 10% of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The number of active coronavirus cases continued to decline as Pakistan reported less than 70,000 active cases for the first time since July 31 Friday morning. The National Command and Operation Centre&#8217;s latest coronavirus report showed 2,928 new COVID-19 cases after\u00a057,626 tests were taken in the last 24 hours, bringing the country&#8217;s total case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073","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=12073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12075,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073\/revisions\/12075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}