Punjab's Omicron tally tops 1,000

LAHORE: As many as 80 more people tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Punjab in the last 24 hours, the provincial health department said on Tuesday.

76 of the new cases were reported in Lahore alone, it said, adding the number of cases of this variant in the province has climbed to 1,060, including 988 in Lahore.

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The positivity rate of Covid-19 cases has risen to 15.5 per cent, the health department said.

On the other hand, Pakistan today reported a drop in daily Covid cases. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), a total of 49,595 samples were tested, out of which 6,357 turned out to be positive at the positivity rate of 12.81 per cent.

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Seventeen more patients of COVID-19 succumbed to the viral disease in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 29,122. The number of critical patients rose to 1,200 as compared to yesterday’s 1,113 cases.