ISLAMABAD: The Covid-19 positivity rate in Islamabad and Rawalpindi districts saw a decline on Tuesday.

The capital, however, reported one death in the age group of 60-69. The deceased was a woman and a resident of H-13.

Officials of the capital administration said during the last 24 hours 3,945 tests were conducted which detected the virus in 68 people — 35 women and 33 men — and positivity rate was 1.72pc.

They said 16 cases were reported in the age group of 20-29, followed by14 in 40-49, 10 in 10-19, nine in 30-39, eight in 50-59, six in 60-69, four in 0-9 and one in 80 and above.

Likewise, four cases each were reported from Bhara Kahu and Rawat, three each from I-8 and Loi Bher, two each from Alipur, D-12, F-10, F-11, G-10, G-15, G-8, and Tarlai and one each from Chak Shahzad, E-11, F-6, G-5, G-9 and H-13.

Rawalpindi

As per data shared by the District Health Authority, the positivity ratio in the district decerased to 1.29 per cent on Tuesday as 24 of the 1,855 samples tested positive and 51 people were discharged from hospitals.

There are 617 active patients in the district. As many as 93 patients are in hospitals and 524 home isolated.

Most of the Covid-19 patients came from the garrison city as five patients arrived from cantonment areas, two from Potohar Town, four from Rawal, four from Gujar Khan, five from Taxila, two from Chakwal and one each from Jhelum and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The patients were admitted to different hospitals of the city. There are three patients on ventilators, 36 on oxygen and 42 are stable.

APP adds: National Command and Operation Center (NCOC’s) team along with Regional Transport Authority (RTA) Rawalpindi late Monday checked the compliance of vaccination of public transport drivers, passengers at different local routes within the city and at the Metro Bus stations.

The NCOC team and secretary RTA checked more than 200 vans and buses at various local routes of Rawalpindi and imposed fines for not following NCOC guidelines regarding vaccination.

Cases were also registered against some of the drivers and they were shifted to police station. While the passengers were vaccinated single shot of Cansino on the spot.

Similarly, during in another action at metro bus stations Rawalpindi, the team checked the vaccination certificates of metro bus staffers, drivers and passengers on the stations as well as within the buses.

The unvaccinated passengers at the metro bus stations were injected single shot of Cansino vaccine on the spot. However, the passengers within the metro buses were fully vaccinated.

The inspection teams also checked the vaccination certificates of Bykea riders at different routes, imposed fines on non-vaccinated drivers, they were also injected single shot of Cansino on the spot.

Published in Dawn, October 6th, 2021