ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, National Development and National Command and Operations Center (NCOC) Asad Umar has said that the number of Corona patients in hospitals has increased. In a statement released on Twitter on Thursday, the federal minister said the number of critically ill patients in Corona was also increasing.
He said that the type “Delta” being diagnosed in India is causing havoc in the region. Asad Omar also instructed the citizens to get vaccinated as soon as possible and follow the SOPs.
Meanwhile, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Health, Dr. Faisal Sultan, has hinted at banning the epidemic on Eid-ul-Adha in view of the fourth wave of Corona in the country. Will scale.
Dr. Faisal Sultan said that the rate of positive cases in Karachi is 19%, so the decisions taken by the provincial government to ban corona are correct. He clarified that passengers traveling from one province to another during Eid-ul-Adha holidays Vaccine card should be mandatory for while Jammu and Kashmir has banned non-supply of vaccine card.
He said that when a new virus arrives, it spreads more easily, changes its appearance so that it spreads rapidly from one to another and the Indian type Delta variant spreads 50 to 60 percent faster. Is. Dr. Faisal said that the important thing to keep in mind in this regard is that the virus is also spreading rapidly and if the process of implementation of SOPs is maintained, such outbreaks can be prevented. Not being 100% effective, getting vaccinated does not mean that you cannot be infected with the virus, but it does reduce the risk of disease.
Dr. Faisal said that all the existing variants are affected by the vaccine. The results of Corona vaccine in the country are extraordinary. However, statistics related to this will be presented to the media soon. At least one vaccine has been given to stop the spread of the virus, which has not yet received a single vaccine. This attitude is not entirely correct. Dr. Faisal said that we have a few thousand data which has some flaws. A portal has been opened to remove the hope that most people’s problem will be solved.
For the first time since June 2, 2,545 new cases of corona have been reported in the country. According to official figures, 48,910 tests have been carried out across the country in the last 24 hours, while another 47 people have died from the global epidemic. The report said that the rate of positive cases of corona in the country has reached 5.2 percent. According to the statistics, 1,030 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours in the country.