PAKISTAN: According to data from the National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH), Pakistan recorded 779 new infections in a single day, raising the spectre of daily COVID-19 cases once more.
On July 9, 732 illnesses were discovered, which was the previous time Pakistan reported more than 700 cases. Diagnostic testing on 22,099 samples from around the nation led to the discovery of the new infections, raising Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity rate to 3.53 percent and the overall case count to 1,544,912.
While 182 patients are still receiving care in critical care units at various hospitals around the nation, two people succumbed to the coronavirus overnight while undergoing therapy.Due to escape mutations that give them an advantage, experts attribute the increase in COVID-19 cases in Pakistan to two sub-variants of 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 COVID-19, but there is no proof that these individuals are developing a serious illness as a result of the sub-variants.
