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Corona kills seven in KP
July 29, 2021
PESHAWAR: The coronavirus has started spreading due to multiple factors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and claimed seven lives and infected 399 people on Wednesday. It is stated to be the highest death toll in the fourth wave. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has lost 4435 people as a result of coronavirus since the outbreak of the infectious disease in 2020. Also, 142799 people had suffered from the Covid-19 in KP and 135687 successfully recovered. According to health experts, they had noted a rise in coronavirus cases in the province after Eidul Adha. There were different variants of the infectious disease in KP and some of the patients were diagnosed with the most deadly virus of delta variant.
PeshawarNorth-west-frontierPakistanAbbottabadMardanDera-ismail-khanChitralPunjabBannuHaripurEidul-adhaIn this file photo, a health worker gives polio vaccines to children in the suburbs of Lahore. AP/File
LAHORE: Frustrated by the performance of Pakistan’s Polio Programme, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) has declared that the number of missed children in 2021 vaccination rounds all over the country is still higher than it was in 2018 and 2019.
The IMB provides an independent assessment of the progress being made by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in the detection and interruption of polio transmission globally.
In its recent report on Pakistan’s Polio Programme, the global body has marked Punjab as a ‘poor performer’ compared to other provinces.
Lakki-marwatNorth-west-frontierPakistanPeshawarBannuPunjabPishinBalochistanKilla-abdullahFaisalabadLahoreRawalpindiVehicles pass through a flooded road in Lower Dir after heavy rain on Wednesday. INP
MARDAN/PESHAWAR: With the rain lashing different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, two children were killed and three people, including a woman, were injured in Mardan district in separate incidents on Wednesday.
The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) issued a warning of flooding in Budhni nullah of Peshawar and Kalpani nullah of Mardan and glacial lake outburst floods in Chitral region during the current monsoon spell.
The Rescue 1122 officials in Mardan said four-year-old Adnan and four-month-old Nosheen died and another child suffered injured after the roof of their house collapsed in Bijligar locality of Katlang tehsil.
PeshawarNorth-west-frontierPakistanSwabiWapdaPunjabLakki-marwatKatlangDroshBunerCharsaddaMansehraOfficials in health department said that the vaccines were safe and very few mild reactions had been reported so far. Faysal Mujeeb/ White Star
PESHAWAR: The health department will start door-to-door vaccination campaign in five districts on Thursday (today) as seven more died of coronavirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday.
The province also recorded 399 new cases, taking toll of the positive people in the province to 142,799 since the advent of the pandemic, according to a report released by health department.
It said that of the confirmed patients, 135,687 (95 per cent), including 81 people registered during the last 24 hours, had already recovered from the virus whereas the tally of the active cases in the province was 2,677.
PeshawarNorth-west-frontierPakistanSwabiUnited-kingdomBannuPunjabChitralDhosSouth-africaAbbottabadMardanKP to establish 10 new economic zones
July 28, 2021
PESHAWAR: As many as 10 new economic zones and 19 small industrial estates would be established in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 10 years, a meeting was told on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chaired the meeting which was attended by Special Assistant to CM on Industries Abdul Karim, Secretary Industries Humayun Khan, Secretary Energy & Power Zubair Khan, Additional Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, Chief Executive Officer Board of Investment and Trade, Hassan Daud and other senior officials, said a handout.
The meeting was informed that two more special economic zones would be set up in the next five years under the new Industrial Policy 2020. The small industrial estates at Abbottabad, Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Dara Adamkhel, Shahkas and Mardan would be declared as special economic zones.
PeshawarNorth-west-frontierPakistanDarabanBannuPunjabChitralAbbottabadBunerMardanDera-ismail-khanHumayun-khan