Covid kills another patient, infects 52 more in Pakistan
NIH data shows positivity ratio climbs up to 0.69 : President Biden gets updated Covid booster shot
October 26, 2022 11:18 AM
After a gap of weeks, Pakistan has reported another Covid-19 fatality and 52 infections during the last 24 hours (Tuesday), showed the statistics released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Wednesday morning, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
The death toll in the country has now inched up to 30,625 while the number of total infections now rose to 1,573,807 after adding the fresh 52 cases.
During the last 24 hours (Tuesday), 7,512 tests were conducted throughout Pakistan whereas the positivity ratio stood at 0.69 percent. The number of patients in critical care was recorded at 43.
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Biden gets updated Covid booster shot
President Joe Biden got an updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shot Tuesday and urged Americans to follow his example ahead of winter, saying no one need die anymore from the once devastating virus.
Biden, 79, contracted the coronavirus three months ago with mild symptoms and already received a second booster for the vaccine at the end of March.
His updated shot, given in front of journalists at the White House, targets two subvariants of the virus.
Biden announced efforts to get more Americans boosted with the new version of the vaccine ahead of major holiday travel periods at Thanksgiving and the end of the year.
"I'm calling on all Americans... to get their shot just as soon as they can," he said. "There's still hundreds of people dying each day from Covid, hundreds. That number's likely to rise this winter, but... this year, nearly every death is preventable."
Biden said the government and major pharmacy chains, whose leaders joined him on stage to witness the injection, were working together to make sure that the booster was widely available and free of charge.
"Almost everyone who will die from Covid this year will not be up to date on the shots" or have taken the government-funded therapeutics when they get infected, he underlined.
Addressing the long history of political splits on the vaccination issue, Biden pleaded for Americans to "start fresh as a country, put all the old battles over Covid behind us, put all the partisan politics aside."
"We've already lost one million Americans to Covid," Biden said, calling it "this terrible disease."
So far only 20 million Americans, including just one in five elderly people, have got the updated shot, according to the White House.
With inputs from AFP.