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A senior citizen receives a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Peshawar. — AFP/File PESHAWAR: One person died and 158 more Covid-19 patients were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as government issued new guidelines to health workers to get vaccinated and remain in home in case of sickness to stay safe from Delta variant in the fourth wave of the pandemic. According to Covid-19 situation report of health department, the provincial tally of infections has reached 144,818 of which 134,144 (95 per cent), including 100 recorded during the last 24 hours, have already re...

July 7, 2021 TIMERGARA: A woman teacher hailing from Lower Dir on Tuesday asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Education Shahram Khan Tarakai to look into her application for transfer. Talking to local journalists, Zainab Begum complained that she had applied for e-transfer under the e-transfer policy of the Elementary and Secondary Education Department. The teacher said that she was shocked to see that she was dropped in sheer violation of the rules. “Since my first appointment in 2014, I have been serving as Drawing Master in Government Girls High School Shalkandai, which is more than 2...

A senior citizen receives a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Peshawar. — AFP/File PESHAWAR: As Covid-19 cases and mortalities continue to decline in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, health department has intensified efforts to enhance vaccination prior to the onset of the fourth wave. On Sunday, four more patients succumbed to the virus and 131 new cases were recorded in the province that took the overall tally of deaths and incidence to 4,308 and 137,759 respectively. Of the total infected people, 131,626 (95 per cent) including 113 recorded during the last 24 hours have recovered ...

PESHAWAR: The health department is installing 10 oxygen plants to cater to the needs of Covid-19 patients besides strengthening intensive care services for seriously-ill or wounded patients in the district headquarters hospitals of the province. “The installation process would be completed by end of June this year, which will not only help in survival of Covid-19 patients and also others critically sick people requiring medical oxygen,” said officials. Nine plants would be installed in Kohat, Malakand, Haripur, Dir Upper, Dir Lower, Buner, Mardan, Charsadda and Nowshera while another, Pre...

Chief Minister Mahmood Khan inaugurates the mobile Covid vaccination service in Peshawar on Thursday. PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan ordered the authorities concerned to ensure strict lockdown from May 8 to May 16 in line with the recommendations of National Command and Operation Centre as the province recorded 40 deaths and 792 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday. The chief minister told a meeting of provincial task force on Covid-19 that all the business and markets would remain closed except the exempted outlets providing essential services, according to a statement. The meeting, attende...