Eight more Covid deaths recorded

Eight more people died from Covid-19 and 166 others got the virus in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday.

The daily positivity rate declined to 1.25 percent from Friday's 1.71 percent.

The fresh cases were detected after testing 13,240 samples, said the Directorate General of Health Services.

With the fresh numbers, Covid fatalities reached 27,862 in the country while the caseload climbed to 1,569,328, according to DGHS.

The mortality rate rose to 1.78 percent from Friday's 1.77 percent.

Also, the recovery rate stood at 97.69 percent with the recovery of 181 more patients during the 24-hour period.

Among the eight deceased, six were men and two women.