Pakistan's coronavirus positivity rate has been recorded at 0.94 per cent in the last 24 hours, marking the first time it dropped below 1pc since the government started tracking the spread of the disease in March 2020.

The country's cases have been on the decline with fewer than 1,000 infections recorded every day since Oct 15.

The countrywide breakdown of cases during the last 24 hours is as follows:

  • Punjab: 81
  • Sindh: 250
  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 44
  • Balochistan: 7
  • Islamabad: 18
  • Gilgit-Baltistan: 0
  • Azad Jammu and Kashmir: 0

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