Pakistani authorities have scrambled to speed up vaccination and firm up non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain the spread of the coronavirus, amid a surge in the number of cases.
The country on Sunday recorded 5,050 new Covid-19 cases, taking the national infection tally to 721,018. The death toll jumped to 15,443 in the last 24 hours.
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the national apex body to combat the coronavirus, in a meeting on Saturday decided to extend the existing non-pharmaceutical intÂerventions (NPIs) such as markets closure and restrictions on transport till Monday, Dawn newspaper reported.