Nine COVID-19 patients passed away in the past day, worsening the situation in Pakistan ahead of Eid, according to data from the National Ministry of Medicine in Islamabad (NIH) released on Thursday morning.
After more than three months, Pakistan’s coronavirus death toll significantly increased; on March 8, 2022, the nation last recorded nine deaths. Additionally, 872 additional cases were reported throughout the nation on a given day, raising the COVID-19 positive rate to 3.77 percent. After conducting diagnostic testing on 23,125 samples, new illnesses were found.165 patients are receiving care in critical care settings in the meanwhile.
Due to escape mutations that give them an advantage, experts attribute the increase in COVID-19 occurrences in Pakistan to two sub-variants of both the Omicron variant, known as BA.4 and BA.5.
They claim that the sub-variants have been spreading to individuals who have already had a vaccination or who have already contracted COVD-19, but there is no proof that these individuals are developing a serious illness as a result of the sub-variants.
