Two People Died Of Covid-19: The (SHD) Sindh Health Department has started testing all passengers coming from China for Covid-19.
ISLAMABAD: According to NIH, 2 people died of COVID-19
Due to COVID-19 two lives have died in the last 24 hours in the country, the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad said that on Wednesday one person died during treatment in Sindh while another person died in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a six-year-old child suffering from blood cancer died of Covid-19, while the virus claimed the life of a 75-year-old man in Sindh, an official from the Ministry of National Health Services said in a statement.
POSITIVITY RATE:
According to the NIH, 5,126 tests were conducted in the country, out of which 22 people tested positive for Covid-19 and the positivity rate was 0.43 percent. Officials said that 417 tests were conducted in Lahore where 7 people tested positive for Covid-19 and the positivity rate was 1.68%, 3 tests were positive in Islamabad while 1 person tested positive for Covid-19 in Peshawar.
REASON
According to the NIH, almost all cases of Covid-19 are now because of the XBB subvariant. The XBB subvariant is the dominant variant of the Omicron variant.
On the other hand,
Sindh Health Department officials say that they have started testing all travellers from China for Covid-19 through PCR. But no virus infection has been confirmed in any person so far.
On the direction of the Sindh Health Minister, we are testing all passengers from China for COVID-19 through PCR. So far, no one from China has tested positive for COVID-19.
Two percent of passengers on flights from other countries are also being randomly screened,” an official of the Sindh Health Department told The News.