Punjab witnesses increase in COVID-19 cases in first 11 days of Oct

The Punjab Primary and Secondary Health Department has said after significant decrease in the COVID-19 case, the number has once again started creeping up.

As per the report issued by the department, as many as 670 cases of coronavirus were reported in the first 11 days of October.

In months of August and September, 25 cases were being reported on daily basis, but now the number has climbed to 60/per day in first 11 days in the current month.

The report highlights that 16 critical patients of coronavirus are currently under treatment at the government hospitals of the province.

Chairman Corona Experts Advisory Group Punjab, Professor Mehmood Shaukat termed increase in cases is due to non-compliance with the health-related guidelines designed by the provincial government to control over the spread of the pandemic.

Weather change can result in the return of coronavirus, he feared.

On the other hand, 385 new cases of the coronavirus surfaced across the country over the past 24 hours, taking the nationally tally of infections to 319,317.

Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 319,317 cases have been detected so far, including 140,294 in Sindh, 100,764 in Punjab, 38,348 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15,525 in Balochistan, 17,331 in Islamabad, 3937 in Gilgit Baltistan, and 3118 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.