4th Covid wave weakens as country sees decline in positivity rate.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has been recording a slow decline in its daily Covid-19 cases over the last two days, with 2,714 fresh cases reported on Wednesday morning.

As the fourth wave of outbreak ebbs in the country, the number of active cases in Pakistan has now dropped to 77,532, the coronavirus positivity rate recorded at 4.78 per cent in the last 24 hours, and the patients in critical care were 5122 as of Wednesday. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the last time the country's positivity rate was less than 5 per cent was on July 24. The NCOC's statistics released on 15 September 2021, a total of 56,733 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours and 2714 returned positive. This pushes the total number of cases to 1,212,809. The country also reported 73 deaths, pushing the death toll to 26,938. The country has recorded a downward trend in daily cases, with active cases going under 80,000 for the first time since early August this year. The total recoveries crossed the 1.1 million mark after 10,923 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours. As of now, some 1,108,339 patients have recovered.

Pakistan has...