‘Indian, South African variants detected in KP’
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June 5, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Indian and South African variants of the novel coronavirus have been detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the provincial health department confirmed Friday.
According to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Secretary Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, the Indian variant of the coronavirus was confirmed in a patient. Meanwhile, two patients who tested positive for the virus were found to be infected with the South African variant. Shah said that all three patients had arrived in Pakistan from the United Arab Emirates a few days ago. All three infected patients are residents of Peshawar, Shah said, adding that the samples of 12 more patients had been sent to Islamabad for testing.
PESHAWAR: The Indian and South African variants of the novel coronavirus have been detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the provincial health department confirmed Friday. According to the Khyber.
South African, Indian variants of COVID-19 found in KP patients
Pakistan
Microscopic image of the novel coronavirus. Photo: File.
The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday confirmed to have detected the Indian and the South African variants of the novel coronavirus in Peshawar.
According to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Secretary Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, one patient was found to be infected with the Indian variant of the virus, while the South African variant was detected in two other patients.
All three patients, as per the health secretary, had arrived in the province from the UAE, adding that they are residents of Peshawar. At the time of passengers arrival, a test for COVID-19 was performed and samples obtained from them were sent to Islamabad for testing.
Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital gets Cath Lab finally
Peshawar
By Mushtaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR: The long-awaited Cath Lab has been finally installed in the Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital in Swat and is ready to be formally opened, according to officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department.
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan had taken personal interest in the catheterisation laboratory (Cath Lab) in the tertiary care hospital of Saidu Sharif in his native Swat after learning that there was not a single such facility in any public sector hospital in the entire Malakand division.
The successive provincial governments, including the previous Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf (PTI)-led coalition government, ignored this important project as it needed Rs160 million.