Daily report on December 23: Pakistan records over 2,000 new coronavirus infections
Updated Wednesday Dec 23 2020
As the world faces a second wave of infections, Geo.tv brings you the latest on the COVID-19 numbers at home and outside.
Pakistan
A total of 2,142 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 462,814. With 84 new deaths, the country's coronavirus death toll reached 9,557. So far, a total of 415,352 people have recovered from the virus while the active number of cases stands at 37,905.
With 35,621 tests conducted across Pakistan, the positivity rate has reached 6.01%
World
COVID-19 infections are still rising in 62 countries. There have been at least 77,518,000 reported infections and 1,708,000 reported deaths caused by the new coronavirus so far.
Of every 100 infections last reported around the world, more than 14 were reported from countries in Asia and the Middle East. The region is reporting a million new infections about every 10 days and has reported more than 19,941,000 since the pandemic began.