At least 1,983 coronavirus cases were reported in the last 24 hours, the lowest in a month, according to the National Command and Operation Centre's data on Saturday.

The latest Covid update showed that the country’s Covid trajectory is going downwards as the weather changes across the country. However, medical experts – including the World Health Organisation – have always stressed the need for following Covid protocol even if the people are vaccinated.

On January 10, 2022, the country reported around 1,465 cases out of 43,540 tests conducted in a single day. The single-day tally also showed a decrease in the daily death count.

“Statistics 19 Feb 22: total tests in last 24 hours: 47,780; positive cases: 1,983; positivity %: 4.15%; deaths: 26; patients on critical care: 1,439,” the NCOC said in a tweet.

The countrywide tally showed that Sindh reported the maximum number of Covid cases, 563,314, followed by Punjab (498,322), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (214,277), Islamabad (133,702), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (42,535), Balochistan (35,206), and Gilgit Baltistan (11,320).

Moreover, the country has also administered as many as 200 million doses of Covid vaccines, which has been termed as a “milestone” by the government and won praise from medical experts and the World Health Organisation.

The NCOC, which serves as the centre of the country’s unified efforts to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, vaccine statistics showed Pakistan was close to meeting the 200 million vaccine administration mark. The government on February 1 started the first phase of a “massive” two-week-long door-to-door vaccination campaign countrywide to inoculate more than 35 million people as part of the country’s efforts to get ‘rid of the virus’ and return to normalcy.