LAHORE: Punjab's campaign against the novel coronavirus infection continues. As vaccine stocks have been replenished across the country recently, daily records for vaccines are being broken every other day in almost every region of Pakistan, particularly in Punjab, according to authorities.
As per the daily reports shared by Punjab's Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Sarah Aslam, currently, there are 669 vaccination centers fully functioning across the province. In the last 24 hours, Punjab vaccinated 203,536 citizens taking the total number of people at least partially vaccinated to 8,169,942.
Taking to her official Twitter handle, the secretary further updated that 18,528 COVID-19 tests were performed in the last 24 hours in Punjab, with 141 new cases, 8 Covid-related deaths and 202 recoveries reported.
As of today, Punjab's detailed COVID-19 stats are as follows:
• The total number of coronavirus tests that have been conducted has exceeded 5.58 million.
• Total cases have reached 345,796.
• At least 10,721 patients have succumbed to the deadly flu bug.
• The number of recoveries currently stands at 326,231.
• At present, there are 8,844 active patients battling the viral infection in the most populated province of Pakistan.