A downward trend was also seen in the daily number of reported cases, with less than 3,000 infected patients during the last 24 hours, the lowest in three months.

“Statistics 8 Feb 22: total tests in last 24 hours: 52,327; positive cases: 2,799; positivity %: 5.34%; deaths: 37; patients on critical care: 1,668,” according to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) tweet on Tuesday.

The last time, the country had reported less than 3,000 Covid cases was on January 12; when as many as 2,074 people tested positive out of the 44,120 people who got tested.

The countrywide tally showed that Sindh had the highest number of infected patients, 553,112 cases, followed by Punjab (490,103), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (204,084), Islamabad (131,987), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (40,826), Balochistan (34,853), and Gilgit Baltistan (10,945).

NCOC's is also running a country-wide vaccination campaign with a target of inoculating 35 million people and according to the health ministry, the “highest single-day vaccine administration” was carried out on February 7.

Special Assistant to the PM on Health Faisal Sultan also shared the development and lauded the staff involved in the mega task.

The NCOC forum, which serves as the centre of the country’s unified efforts to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, on Monday said 38 per cent of the total country’s population is vaccinated against the virus.

As per the NCOC’s vaccine statistics, which was shared on Twitter on Tuesday, “Vaccine administered across Pakistan in last 24 hours: 2.017,179; total vaccine administered till now: 187,934,017.”