ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate a specialized 250-bed infectious diseases hospital in Islamabad today.
In a tweet, the federal minister said the hospital was built by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in 40 days to meet the needs of the people.
The facility will meet additional requirements to ease pressure from capital hospitals.
Meanwhile, there has been an improvement in the number of recoveries from COVID-19 in Pakistan with the figure now reaching 145,311.
According to the National Command and Operation Center, the number of active COVID cases in the country are now 90,554.
3359 people tested positive of 24,333 tests conducted over the last twenty-four hours.
Sixty-one people lost lives due to the virus during the last twenty-four hours.
Out of 1568 ventilators allocated for COVID-19, 435 are occupied across the country.
