Ag APP
PESHAWAR: Coronavirus was confirmed in 24 passengers at Peshawar’s Bacha Khan International Airport, on a flight that had arrived from Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
According to the airport’s manager, the flight from Abu Dhabi had 128 passengers on board, out of which 24 passengers tested positive for Covid-19. The infected passengers were soon handed over to the district administration which swiftly moved them to quarantine centres.
Meanwhile, active infections across Pakistan stood at 44,236 after 1,303 more people tested positive for the virus in the 24 hours leading to Thursday. Seventy-six corona patients died in the same period, according to the National Command and Operation Centre’s (NCOC) latest situation update. The Covid positivity ratio rose above the 3 per cent mark (3.1 per cent) after several days. Some 3,192 patients were admitted in Covid-dedicated healthcare facilities across the country, 2,967 of who were in critical care. Around 361 ventilators were occupied. Ventilators’ occupancy rates were the highest in Multan, 48 per cent; Lahore 27, per cent; Bahawalpur, 26 per cent; and Islamabad, 21 per cent.
Oxygen beds occupancy rates were highest in Karachi, Multan and Abbottabad all of which had 30 per cent of its beds in use, followed by Peshawar’s 28 per cent. A total of 937,434 cases were detected in the country, with a death toll of 21,529.
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