Islamabad: Pakistan’s positivity rate of the deadly virus (coronavirus) is now 22%, finds a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Positivity rates, which are being monitored in all pandemic-struck countries around the world, is the percentage of positive results out of the total number of tests sampled.
Guidelines from the WHO recommend that countries looking to relax social distancing rules, lockdowns, or other public health measures should report a positivity rate of 5% or less, for two consecutive weeks.
Although Pakistan has ramped up its testing to over 29,000 tests per day lately, of those tests diagnosed upward to 22% have come back positive in total, notes the WHO.
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