The National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) data showed Thursday morning that the number of new COVID-19 cases in Pakistan increased slightly just one day after it decreased somewhat, as the nation continues to record an erratic trend forcoronavirus statistics.
According to today’s statistics, diagnostic testing on 17,397 samples revealed 390 additional cases of , bringing Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity rate to 2.24 percent.Overnight, two more persons passed away while receiving coronavirus treatment, and 175 COVID-19 patients are currently receiving care at various hospitals across the nation.
Due to escape mutations that give them an advantage, experts attribute the An upsurge in COVID-19 instances in Pakistan has been linked to the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the Omicron variant.
They assert that those who have previously had a vaccination or who already contracted COVD-19 have been exposed to the sub-variants, but there is no evidence to support their assertion that these people are experiencing a major illnesses of the sub-variants.
