Last week, health department allowed the hospitals to resume OPDs for general patients but vaccination was made obligatory for both patients and their relatives. — AFP/File PESHAWAR: As coronavirus cases and mortalities due to the pandemic continue to decline, Khyber Teaching Hospital has started vaccination of patients’ attendants as part of the health department’s plan to boost up inoculation and ensure safety of people. The government has also extended public health emergency for three more months, according to a notification issued by health department. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been recording less than 100 cases and five mortalities from the infection for the past one week, has focused on vaccination of people and is employing different methods to scale up awareness regarding Covid-19 jabs and safeguard them against the infection.