Pakistan reports 7,000 COVID-19 cases for second straight day 

KARACHI: Pakistan logged over 7,000 fresh COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day.

These cases appeared as the Omicron variant pushes infections across the country amid the fifth wave of the pandemic, data from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed recently. 

As per the NCOC’s latest stats, 7,195 coronavirus cases were reported during the last 24 hours, after 57,401 tests were conducted across the country, with the positivity ratio reaching 12.53 per cent. 

Following the detection of new cases, the overall cases reached 1.37 million, while eight more deaths from coronavirus, pushing the death toll to 29,105, the statistics showed. 

In addition to this, as many as 1,113 patients are in critical care. At the same time, 833 more people have recuperated from the pandemic in the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 1.269 million, the official figures showed. Meanwhile, the active cases stood at 76,617.