Feb 2, 2022: According to the latest update from the NCOC, Pakistan’s coronavirus positivity ratio continued to be below 10% for the second consecutive day, standing at 9.88% as the country battles the 5th Covid-19 wave.

As per data from The National Command and Operation Centre’s (NCOC), 61,190 tests were conducted during the past 24 hours, out of which a total of 6,047 came out positive. However, the number of daily cases is higher than the one reported on Tuesday.

Pakistan has an active case count of above 100,000 for the fifth consecutive day and stands at 102,103. Since the start of the pandemic, the country has recorded 1,436,413 Covid-19 cases.

At present there are 1,559 critical cases, while the corona virus claimed 29 more lives during the last 24 hours. On the other hand, another 9,590 people recovered during the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 1,304,980.

The NCOC stats show that 1,254,125 doses were administered across the country during the last 24 hours. So far, 177,420,636 doses have been administered.

“36% of total population and 54% of eligible population stand vaccinated!”

Asad Umar, head of the NCOC, who accompanied Dr. Faisal Sultan, the prime minister’s special assistant for health, said he had decided to launch a door-to-door campaign to vaccinate people against the coronavirus on Tuesday as the fifth wave rages across the country.

The fifth Covid-19 wave is mainly fueled by the new Omicron variant. Umar said a large-scale campaign would be launched in all parts of Pakistan in which more than 55,000 mobile teams would go door-to-door to vaccinate. He added that the teams would provide the first, second and third booster doses of the vaccine.

He added that in the first phase, 35 million people are expected to be vaccinated, which started on Tuesday and will continue for two weeks.

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