ISLAMABAD: Four more people succumbed to Covid-19 - two each in Islamabad and Rawalpindi districts - on Saturday.

Officials of the capital administration said the deceased were a male in the age group of 60-69 and a female in the age group of 80-89. They were residents of E-11 and Khanna.

During the last 24 hours, 4,450 tests were conducted out of which 71 (36 males and 35 females) tested positive with the positivity ratio of 1.59 per cent.

The officials said 17 cases each were reported in the age group of 20-29 and 30-39, nine in 50-59, eight in 40-49, seven in 0-9, five in 60-69, four in 10-19, three in 70-79 and one in 80 and above.

Likewise, five cases each were reported from Loi Bher, F-8 and Koral, three from Rawat, two each from F-7 and G-11, and one each from F-10, E-11, I-8, I-9, G-13, Tarlai, Chak Shahzad, G-6, I-11 and Kurri.

The capital had 546 active cases on Saturday, they said, adding 78 patients were admitted in hospitals and 67 of them were on oxygen and nine on ventilators.

Rawalpindi

The two patients who died of Covid-19 were identified as Mohammad Saddique, 70, resident of Kashmir Colony Taxila, and Meera Mahi, 80, of Khana Bridge.

The district also reported 17 new cases on Saturday. Moreover, 39 patients recovered from the disease and were discharged form hospitals.

According to the health authority data, the positivity ratio in the district was recorded at 1.61pc. A total of 1,050 samples were collected out of which 1,037 were declared negative.

There are 277 active patients - 32 in hospitals and 245 home isolated. Four of the cases were reported from different parts of Rawalpindi and Chaklala cantonments, five from city areas and two from Potohar Town.

Moreover, one patient each arrived from Islamabad, Gujar Khan and Taxila and two patients from Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

There are 32 patients admitted at different hospitals - four at Benazir Bhutto Hospital, eight at Fauji Foundation Hospital and 20 patients at Rawalpindi Institute of Urology.

One of the patients is on a ventilator, 23 patients are on oxygen and eight are stable.

Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2022