A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has been informed that Hyderabad has the highest positivity rate in the country at 24.6 per cent.

The national positivity rate is 7.6pc, the NCOC said in the statement. Karachi has the second-highest positivity rate at 17.7pc, followed by Rawalpindi at 17.2pc.

The countrywide positivity rates are as follows:

• Sindh: 10.7pc
• Azad Jammu and Kashmir: 9.3pc
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 8.7pc
• Balochistan: 7.6pc
• Islamabad: 5.5pc
• Punjab: 5.4pc
• Gilgit Baltistan: 1.6pc