Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday reported 111 COVID-19 fatalities in one day, the highest in a period of the last six months (since June this year).
According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) with this new one-day toll, Pakistan’s total toll is a little below 10,000 mark at 9,668.
According to NCOC, most deaths have been reported in Sindh, followed by Punjab.
The highest rate of ventilators occupancy in the country is found to be in Multan (51 per cent) followed by Islamabad (40 per cent) Lahore (35 per cent) and then Peshawar (27 per cent), it further reports.
With regard to number of COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the health ministry’s portal, the total number of infections has reached 465,070 - 2,256 in the last twenty-four hours.
Bound for their homes, Tablighis talk of waiting children, fight for justice At the Narela temporary detention facility, they locked us from outside, while providing what we needed, like food, medicines. At another place, we were kept in rooms that turned into furnaces during the summer, but at least we could move around. Updated: December 20, 2020 7:54:34 am
The Tablighi members were booked for allegedly flouting Covid norms. Archive
On the surface, the Tablighi Jamaat members appear content looking forward to going home and meeting their loved ones. But a gentle prodding brings forth the anguish, of spending nearly a year in a foreign land, while facing public vilification, accusations of spreading a pandemic, and a long court trial, before finally being exonerated.