ISLAMABAD - The number of new Covid-19 infections continues to drop in the country as Pakistan Saturday morning recorded less than 60,000 active cases of the virus for the first time in almost two months.

The country last reported 59,761 active cases on July 29 this year. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), Pakistan recorded 52,042 active cases on Saturday morning. However, among the active cases, 4,267 patients are under critical care. During the last 24 hours, 2,060 new cases were reported after 44,958 tests were taken across the country, pushing the nationwide tally of the infections to 1,236,888. As per the NCOC data, 10,928 more people recovered from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, while 42 people succumbed to the infection during the same period. The Covid-19 death toll stood at 27,524 as of Saturday morning. The country’s Covid-19 positivity rate stood at 4.58 percent. Pakistan has been reporting a positivity rate below 5 percent for the last eight days.

It is to mention here that Covid-19 infections are decreasing in Pakistan, with 2,297 new infections reported on average each day. That’s 39 percent of the peak the highest daily average reported on June 17. Pakistan has administered at least 76,141,484 doses of Covid vaccines so far.

Assuming every person needs 2 doses that are enough to have vaccinated about 17.6 percent of the country’s population. During the last week reported, Pakistan averaged about 767,771 doses administered each day. At that rate, it will take a further 57 days to administer enough doses for another 10 percent of the population, suggest the stats.