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Daily Times May 21, 2021 PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has extended the closure of public and private sector universities and Colleges in 22 districts till June 07. According to a notification issued here on Friday, public and private sector universities and colleges in District Peshawar, Nowshera, Charsadda, Mardan, Swabi, Dir Upper and Lower, Bajaur, Buner, Malakand, Swat, Shangla, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Torghar, Haripur, Battagram, Orakzai, Kohat, Kurram, Bannu, South Waziristan, and DIKhan will remain closed till June 07, having Covid positively five percent and above. Howeve...

Peshawar, Mardan, Malakand and Hazara divisions have reported bulk of deaths and Covid-19 patients.— Reuters/File PESHAWAR: Coronavirus claimed 27 more lives including an employee of Lady Reading Hospital and infected 642 others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as Peshawar, Mardan and Swat continued to record more deaths and new cases. A report of health department said that 10 more people fell prey to the virus in Peshawar, five in Swat, four in Mardan and two each in Charsadda and Dir Upper while Chitral Lower, Kurram, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan each lost one resident to the pandemic. The ...

Health minister Taimur Jhagra meets representatives from the Hayatabad Medical Complex. - Photo courtesy Twitter PESHAWAR: Resenting the non-implementation of the last year’s legislation for the prevention of violence against health workers, the Provincial Doctors Association has warned that the medics will suspend the management of coronavirus patients in hospitals if the government doesn’t act against MPAs Nighat Orakzai and Shafiq Afridi for ransacking the Hayatabad Medical Complex and torturing staff members. The PDA leaders told Dawn that health professionals would stop offering cor...

Health minister Taimur Jhagra meets representatives from the Hayatabad Medical Complex. - Photo courtesy Twitter PESHAWAR: Resenting the non-implementation of the last year’s legislation for the prevention of violence against health workers, the Provincial Doctors Association has warned that the medics will suspend the management of coronavirus patients in hospitals if the government doesn’t act against MPAs Nighat Orakzai and Shafiq Afridi for ransacking the Hayatabad Medical Complex and torturing staff members. The PDA leaders told Dawn that health professionals would stop offering cor...

PESHAWAR/MARDAN: Coronavirus claimed 42 more lives and 787 new cases were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as the weeklong lockdown ended in Mardan after slump in infectivity level of virus in the district where positivity for virus declined after imposition of restrictions. Amid three wave of the pandemic, which has so far killed 3,392 persons and infected 1,20,064 others since its onset, Provincial Doctors Association chairman Dr Zubair Zahir in a statement said that elective services had been stopped in Hayatabad Medical Complex, Bara and Hazara division where only critically-ill a...