By Raja kamran
NCOC morning session in progress. Chief secretaries joined morning session through video link. Forum is being apprised on national positivity ratio, measures taken by federating units for SOPs compliance week and most importantly detailed review of critical requirements during 2nd wave of pandemic
Testing for last two weeks remained over 40 thousands per day .
81 % positive cases are from major urban centres. During last week 40 % testing was on contact tracing.
4503 smart lockdowns (SLD ) across Pakistan with 1512903 people under these SLDs .
Provinces updates on SOPs compliance. NCOC was told that various administrative measures including fines/ closures have been taken for disease containment. Provinces updated NCOC on various activities being taken particularly during SOP compliance week 5-12 December.
Forum was told that
National Positivity Ratio is 9.71%
Highest positivity ratio observed in Karachi 21.31%, followed by Abbottabad 17.86% and Peshawar 16.66%.
2539 Covid patients are in critical condition across Pakistan and the number of critical patients is rising fast.
The positivity ratio in various federating units is as:
AJK 11.93%, Balochistan is 11.61%, GB 2.89%, Islamabad 8.20%, KP is 8.22%, Punjab 5.54% and Sindh 15.83%
Province wise COVID Positivity Ratio under:-
Punjab
Lahore – 9.74%
Rawalpindi – 12.09%
Faisalabad – 5.28%
Sindh
Karachi – 21.31%
Hyderabad – 14.00%
KP
Peshawar – 16.66%
Swat – 4.27%
Abbottabad – 17.86%
Balochistan
Quetta – 7.05%
Islamabad
ICT – 8.20%
AJK
Mirpur – –
Muzaffarabad – –
GB
Gilgit – 9.09%
Ventilators details
322 patients are on ventilators across Pakistan
Punjab
Faisalabad – 3
Lahore – 91
Multan – 45
Rawalpindi – 19
Sindh
Hyderabad – 0
Karachi – 82
KP
Abbottabad – 0
Peshawar – 43
Islamabad
Islamabad – 39
NCOC Meeting