LAHORE: A critical patient brought with Covid complications died in Lahore here on Tuesday, taking the number of deaths to 13,587 across Punjab.

According to an official spokesperson for the health department, 159 more people tested positive for the virus during the last 24 hours (Tuesday) in Punjab, bringing the total number to 511,958. Of them, 124 were reported from Lahore and 16 from Rawalpindi. The other new positive cases of the virus were reported from Gujranwala, Sialkot, Vehari and Sargodha.

He said the positivity rate of the Covid cases in Lahore increased to 7.5 and 3 in Rawalpindi. It was 3.8pc in Punjab, he said, adding the health department performed 4,165 Covid tests during the last 24 hours across the province.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2022