Pandemic Situation in Pakistan: Recoveries and Mortalities Rate of COVID-19 during First and Second Waves of Pandemic in Pakistan - Data from Feb to Dec 2020

The novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 outbreak has caused significant global issues and challenged healthcare systems across the globe and in Pakistan as well. This infectious disease is found to be a pandemic and has massively impacted countries across the world. The disease is still rapidly spreading and has caused many deaths in Pakistan, according to the world health organization; early in the year of 2020, Pakistan was ranked among the top 10 countries in the world reporting the highest number of new cases of COVID-19 per day during the first wave of the outbreak. The second wave of COVID-19 was relatively high on the first wave of disease in the current scenario of the pandemic. In the all over Pakistan, the real-time PCR is being applied for the qualitative detection of COVID-19 in the human nasopharyngeal swab specimen. From Feb to Dec.2020, in Pakistan there were a total of 416,499 cases registered across the country there have been (2%) deaths, with (85.2%) total recoveries. Sindh and Punjab were the most affected provinces; however, Balochistan, KPK, and other regions of Pakistan were less affected comparatively. This short communication is carried out to shed light on the coronavirus outbreak in the country; it will help to highlight the recoveries and mortalities rate of first and second waves of the disease.