{"id":16323,"date":"2022-07-28T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16323"},"modified":"2022-07-28T07:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:47:43","slug":"pakistan-reports-highest-number-of-covid-deaths-in-20-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16323&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan reports highest number of COVID deaths in 20 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pakistan logs 761 new COVID-19 infections in last 24 hours.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Country\u2019s coronavirus positivity ratio stands at 3.65%.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Pakistan\u2019s total COVID-19 case count rises to 1,552,632.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1658994193715\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the last 20 days as eight people succumbed to the virus in a single day, National Institute of Health, Islamabad\u2019s (NIH) data showed Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country reported nine deaths in a single day on July 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the latest stats, the COVID-19 positivity rate in Pakistan stands at 3.65%. As many as 761 new COVID-19 infections were detected after testing on 20,843 samples, taking the country\u2019s total coronavirus case count to 1,552,632.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 170 people suffering from the virus are being treated in critical care units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COVID-19 Statistics 28 July 2022<br>Total Tests in Last 24 Hours: 20,843<br>Positive Cases: 761<br>Positivity %: 3.65%<br>Deaths: 08<br>Patients on Critical Care: 170<\/p>\u2014 NIH Pakistan (@NIH_Pakistan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIH_Pakistan\/status\/1552473189804085255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"what-is-covid-ba-5-variant-and-why-is-it-reinfecting-so-many-people\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is COVID BA.5 variant and why is it reinfecting so many people?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BA5, part of the Omicron family, is the latest coronavirus variant to cause widespread waves of infection globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the World Health Organisation\u2019s most recent report, it was behind 52% of cases sequenced in late June, up from 37% in one week. In the United States, it is estimated to be causing around 65% of infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rising case numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BA5 is not new. First identified in January, it has been tracked by the WHO since April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a sister variant of the Omicron strain that has been dominant worldwide since the end of 2021 and has already caused spikes in case rates \u2013 even with reduced testing \u2013 in countries including South Africa, where it was first found, as well as the United Kingdom, parts of Europe, and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronavirus cases worldwide have now been rising for four weeks in a row, WHO data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why is it spreading?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like its closely related sibling, BA4, BA5 is particularly good at evading the immune protection afforded either by vaccination or prior infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason, \u201cBA5 has a growth advantage over the other sublineages of Omicron that are circulating,\u201d Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO\u2019s technical lead on COVID-19, told a news briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many people, this means that they are getting re-infected, often even a short time after having COVID-19. Van Kerkhove said the WHO is assessing reports of re-infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have ample evidence that people who\u2019ve been infected with Omicron are getting infected with BA5. No question about it,\u201d said Gregory Poland, a virologist and vaccine researcher with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News Pakistan logs 761 new COVID-19 infections in last 24 hours. 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