ISLAMABAD: The positivity rate of Covid-19 was reported below 10% in Pakistan for second consecutive day on Wednesday morning.

According to the statistics of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) released on Wednesday morning, Pakistan’s active case bar of Coronavirus has seen a constant uptick since early January, taking the count from 15,192 on January 8 to 102,103 on February 2.

The NCOC statistics show that Pakistan’s daily case count, too, has seen a slight uptick in the last 24 hours as the number went up from 5,327 a day earlier to 6,047 after 61,190 diagnostic tests were conducted nationwide on February 1. With this rise, country’s Covid-19 positivity rate has also slightly surged to 9.88%. On February 1, the positivity rate stood at 9.65%.

With the 6,047 new infections, the number of confirmed case count in the country has reached at 1,436,413, while the active case count clocked in at 102,103. Meanwhile, 29 more people succumbed to coronavirus, pushing the nationwide death toll to 29,330. As many as 1,559 patients of Coronavirus are still in critical condition.