Consecutive 5th day decline positive cases, additional ventilators added: NCOC.

ISLAMABAD -- The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Friday said there was a consecutive 5th day decline in positive cases ratio after witnessing rise in number of positive cases for three weeks.

According to NCOC, around 103 more ventilators were added to national count, which makes total number of ventilators1503 in the country.

In order to meet additional requirements of hospitals, procurement of additional ventilators on fast track basis was in progress and would be completed between mid to end of July, adding that more than 1500 ventilators to the existing number.

Operationalisation of 2150 additional oxygenated beds across Pakistan was pursued on war footing to ease extra pull on major hospitals in mega cities across the country.

The details of area wise expansion of oxygenated beds included as 60 beds would be added in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), 200 in Balochistan, 40 in Gilgit Baltistan (GB), 450 in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 400 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 500 in Punjab and 500 in Sindh.

Testing capacity has increased by 65 times and being further increased to more than 100,000 tests per day by mid July.

However, the NCOC also issued the mortality analysis till June 18 (n-3,093) where CFR: 1.93 against 5.37 percent globally where further gender bifurcation showed 73 percent males where age range was1- 102 years (Median...