Planning Minister Asad Umar has said that all the circumstantial evidence indicates a drop in patients’ inflow at hospitals despite the recent increase in the number of Covid-19 tests across the country.

He told Dawn that the number of daily tests, which had dropped to around 20,000 during last week, was again increased to around 25,000 across the country.

“There are four different parameters through which it can be identified that if the spread of the virus has been reduced. In other words, the system exhibits its situation through number of daily positive cases, number of admitted patients, number of patients on ventilators and number of deaths. All four parameters have been showing positive signs as numbers are decreasing,” he said.

The minister said he was very happy over the situation but at the same he was also worried that people might stop following the SOPs due to the decrease in cases.