Pakistan witnessed another deadly day of Covid with 101 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the National Command and Operation Centre data.

The country reported more than 100 deaths on five days during the month of August: 102 deaths on August 11, 141 on August 24, 120 on August 27, 118 on August 30 and 101 on August 31.

Out of the 53,637 tests conducted on Tuesday, 3,559 people tested positive for the virus.

The Covid positivity rate was 6.63 per cent.

According to the figures presented by the Sindh Health Department, so far 2,706,181 children and teens aged between one to 20 years are infected with the virus. The said figures included 38.6 per cent girls and 61.6 per cent boys.