Pakistan Sees Record Covid-19 Coronavirus Deaths As Officials Start To Consider Stricter Lockdowns

 

Reuters: Pakistan sees record COVID-19 deaths as officials consider stricter lockdowns 

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan recorded more than two hundred COVID-19 deaths in a day for the first time since the start of the pandemic on Tuesday, as the government said it was considering stricter lockdowns. 

A total of 201 new deaths were recorded on Tuesday, bringing the country's overall death toll from the virus to 17,530, according to the National Command Operation Center (NCOC), which oversees the government's pandemic response. 

The previous highest daily death count was 157 recorded on April 23. 

A total of 5,292 new cases were reported on Tuesday, bringing the total cases to 810,231 in the country of more than 220 million people. 

The national positivity ratio, the number of infections among those tested, was 10.8%. The death rate, the number of infections resulting in fatalities, hit the highest point since the start of the pandemic, reaching around 2.2%.  

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