COVID-19 positivity rate increases in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported a COVID-19 positive rate of less than 10 per cent for the second consecutive day, according to the statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).

Nevertheless, the country's active case bar steadily increased since early January, rising from 15,192 on January 8 to 102,103 on February 2.

According to the NCOC's figures, the country's daily case count increased slightly in the last 24 hours, rising from 5,327 a day earlier to 6,047 following the nationwide conduct of 61,190 diagnostic tests on February 1. Pakistan's COVID-19 positive rate had also climbed marginally to 9.88 per cent as a result of this increase.