Islamabad: Nasir Khan Durrani, former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), has died of COVID-19. He was 64.
Nasir Durrani had been on ventilator at the Mayo Hospital in Lahore for over a week after developing complications from COVID-19.
During his tenure as the IGP of the province, Durrani was instrumental in reforming the provincial police and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) attributed these police reforms to its second term in the 2018 general elections.
Prime Minister Imran Khan in a tweet offered his condolences to the family of the former IGP and called him an outstanding officer.
Lahore hospitals’ ICUs reach maximum limit
Islamabad: Pakistan’s coronavirus cases crossed the grim milestone of 700,000 on Wednesday with 4,004 cases reported during the last 24 hours.
The country’s death toll also surged to 15,026 as 102 people lost their lives to the virus during the past day.
The total number of cases in the country stood at 700,188 on Wednesday.
According to the National Health Services, 41,699 tests were conducted for COVID-19 during the last 24 hours that showed the virus positivity rate was 9.6 per cent in the country with active cases jumping to 64,373.
Pakistan’s number of cases has declined slightly in the past two days. On Tuesday the country reported less than 4,000 cases.
Islamabad: The positivity rate of COVID-19 is increasing steadily in Pakistan. According to the National Command & Operation Centre (NCOC) the number of active COVID-19 cases is up by 50 per cent over the last three weeks. Another 2,351 people were reported to have tested positive in the last 24 hours.
The national positivity ratio has been recorded at 6.6 per cent on Wednesday while a day earlier it was 5.7 per cent.
With the addition of 2,351 new cases, Pakistan’s tally of coronavirus cases has surged to 612,315, while 61 deaths in 24 hours have taken the toll caused by COVID-19 to 13,656.
The country’s total recoveries stand at 575,867.