By Mashal Khan

ISLAMABAD (TSAT) - Pakistan on Friday has reported its highest single-day COVID-19 cases since pandemic outbreak in the South Asian country in 2020.

According to the country health ministry statistics, Pakistan registered 7,678 new infections in past 24 hours, breaking the previous record of 6,825 cases reported on June 14, 2020.

The country also recorded, 23 more deaths, the highest daily number during last three months.

So far Pakistan registered over 1.35 million COVID-19 cases with 29,065 deaths during last two years.

However, its neighbour India is again facing worst COVID-19 spike as the country reported 347,254 new cases with 703 more fatalities in the past 24 hours as battling with new omicron variant.

With new infections, India total caseload rising to 38.6 million with 488,396 deaths.

While Bangladesh also reported over 10,000 new cases with four deaths in 24 hours that bringing the total caseload of the country to 1.65 million with 28,180 deaths.

Last month Pakistan daily cases declined to nearly 300 on Dec. 27,  however the cases again raising since first week of this month because of wedding gatherings season across the country.

Despite new spiked, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday urged the public to follow the coronavirus SOPs, however he said his government will not bring back covid-19 restrictions because he don’t want to shut down the economy.

In previous waves, Pakistan smart lockdown strategy had widely praised across the world because the country Prime Minister didn’t lock downed the whole country.

However, the education institutions remained closed for several months that affected the students across the country.

So far, Pakistan fully vaccinated its over 72 million populations out of over 200 million while over 102 million have had their first doze of vaccine.