{"id":13199,"date":"2021-10-29T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2021-10-29T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T07:40:07","slug":"daily-covid-19-death-count-in-pakistan-sees-minor-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2021\/10\/29\/daily-covid-19-death-count-in-pakistan-sees-minor-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID-19 death count in Pakistan sees minor increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Another 17 people lost their lives from COVID-19 in Pakistan over the last 24 hours, marking a minor increase in the daily death count which had mostly remained in single-digit figures this week, official data from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NCOC, 45,093 coronavirus tests were conducted across the country in the last 24 hours, out of which 659 people tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>The NCOC placed the positivity rate at 1.46%. This is the 12th consecutive day on which Pakistan has reported a coronavirus positivity rate of less than 2%.<\/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>In addition to this, 931 patients across the country have recovered from COVID-19 in a 24-hour period, bringing the total number of those who have recovered to 1,220,105.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 1,271,687 infections and 28,431 coronavirus-related deaths reported in the country since the pandemic began in 2020. This brings the active case count to 23,151.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Pakistan, with 600 new infections reported on average each day. That\u2019s 10% of the peak \u2014 the highest daily average reported on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has administered at least 102,067,945 doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs two doses, that\u2019s enough to have vaccinated about 23.6% of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>During the last week reported, Pakistan averaged about 633,560 doses administered each day. At that rate, it will take a further 69 days to administer enough doses for another 10% of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Another 17 people lost their lives from COVID-19 in Pakistan over the last 24 hours, marking a minor increase in the daily death count which had mostly remained in single-digit figures this week, official data from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed Friday. According to the NCOC, 45,093 coronavirus tests were conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13199","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\/13199","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=13199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13201,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions\/13201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}