Corona Alert in Pakistan: NIH asks people to wear masks after uptick in COVID-19 cases

The authorities in Pakistan have alerted citizens to wear facemasks as the country continued to experience rise in Covid-19 cases with the latest figures suggesting another spike in infections.

Pakistan has registered another 133 coronavirus infections with no fatality during the last 24 hours (Thursday), showed the statistics released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Friday morning.

According to the NIH data, the death toll in the country remained the same at 30,645 whereas the number of total infections now shot up to 1,578,046 after adding the fresh 133 cases.