• Turk J Med Sci · Oct 2021

    COVID-19 third wave: A challenge for overburdened and shabby healthcare system of Pakistan.

    • Mohammad Ejaz and Muhammad Ali Syed.
    • Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    • Turk J Med Sci. 2021 Oct 1; 51 (5): 278927912789-2791.

    BackgroundTo the Editor, Countries around the globe have observed the dynamic pattern of COVID-19 associated morbidity and mortality in which the first wave was observed in spring 2020 that considerably moderated during the summer. The second wave emerged in fall 2020, which subsequently decreased in early 2021. But now COVID-19 third wave is on the line with an inclined rate and is considered more infectious in some of the countries [1]. In Pakistan, COVID-19 has caused 630,471 confirmed cases with about 13,863 deaths by 21 March 2021 as shown in Figure (a). The rate of positive cases was highest (23%) in June 2020, which dropped to 1.7% by September 2020. Later, it began to rise, reaching 7.45% in January 2021 and 3% in February 2021. Now it is on the rise again and already reached 8% by 19 March 2021 Figure (b). According to the National Command and Operating Center (NCOC) of Pakistan, COVID-19 cases rose to 22,018 in the last 10 days, which is a 68% increase in the cases from the proceeding 10 days, as shown in Figure c.DiscussionThe author declares there is no conflict of interest.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…