Highest Covid positivity rate recorded in Karachi at 18.92%.

ISLAMABAD -- The highest positivity rate of Covid-19 cases was recorded in Karachi at 18.92 per cent in the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was informed on Sunday.

While the countrywide positivity ratio stands at 7.98pc, the number of critically ill Covid-19 patients has risen to 2,471 with 72 succumbing to the infection during the previous 24 hours.

Sindh recorded the highest Covid-19 positivity ratio at 12.13pc, followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 11.68pc, Balochistan 9.30pc, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 8.78pc, Islamabad 4.68pc, Punjab 4.39pc and Gilgit Baltistan 1.98pc.

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