ISLAMABAD, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's daily positivity rate of COVID-19 fell to 2.52 percent on Monday as the country reported 961 new cases, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Tuesday.
The new cases surfaced after the country conducted 38,139 tests during the last 24 hours, taking the overall number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 to 1,502,641, according to the NCOC, a department leading the country's campaign against the pandemic.
The active cases witnessed a declining trend as 2,393 patients recovered during the last 24 hours, pushing the country's active case count down to 66,227.
The pandemic killed 13 people on Monday, raising the country's overall tally to 30,053 deaths.
Pakistan's southern Sindh province is the worst-hit region with 564,895 infections recorded, followed by the eastern Punjab province, which has reported 499,365 cases so far. ■
