Alarm in Karachi as Covid-19 positivity rate jumps over 28%

• The Covid-19 positivity rate in Karachi has reached 28.30 percent, a health department official said, after 30 out of 106 people screened for the virus infection tested positive
•  Alarm in Karachi as Covid-19 positivity rate jumps 28%
• On the other hand, the positivity rate in Lahore remained at 4.14 percent with 18 new cases in 435 tests, reports said

The Covid-19 positivity rate in Karachi has reached 28.30 percent, a health department official said, after 30 out of 106 people screened for the virus infection tested positive, according to media reports.  Alarm in Karachi as Covid-19 positivity rate jumps 28%.

Meanwhile, the national positivity rate was just 3 percent, with three in 100 individuals reportedly testing positive for the pandemic. "The country's Covid-19 positivity rate has started to rise as 100 individuals have tested positive in the last 24 hours after as many as 3,147 tests were conducted across the country, recording 3.18 percent Covid-19 positivity," said an official of the National Institute . He informed about it in Islamabad.

According to statistics shared by NIH Islamabad, the positivity rate in three major cities – Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar – exceeded 10 percent. The positivity rate jumped to 12.20 percent in Islamabad, where 25 people tested positive in 205 tests conducted in Peshawar's detection of the virus recorded a 14.29 percent positivity rate, with 14 people testing positive against 94 tests.

On the other hand, the positivity rate in Lahore remained at 4.14 percent with 18 new cases in 435 tests, reports said.

Commenting on the situation, an NIH official said that Covid 19 cases are on the rise due to a sub-variant of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. He added that the spread of the virus was very high, but the hospitalization rate in the country was still very low, as only 18 people were being treated in intensive care units and high dependency units (HDUs) in the country. He claimed that people showing symptoms of the virus were only being investigated and therefore the positivity rate was very high.

Adding to it , he said that the government has asked provinces and centers to increase the number of tests to find out the real situation