With the incessant rise in the COVID-19 infections in Karachi owing to the Omicron variant outbreak, the coronavirus positivity ratio of the megacity crossed 40%, the federal health ministry officials said Wednesday.
According to the officials, as many as 2,902 new infections were detected overnight in Karachi when 7,232 diagnostic tests were performed.
The new infections pushed the city’s positivity rate to 40.13% – highest since the pandemic begin.
Apart from Karachi, seven more cities in the country reported a positivity ratio higher than 10%, the officials added.
As per the statistics, Muzaffarabad’s positivity rate stood at 21%, followed by Lahore with 15.15%, Hyderabad 14%, Islamabad 12%, Peshawar 11% and Rawalpindi at 10.26%.
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