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 and injured patients would get treatment in accident and emergency departments.
“The strike will be extended to the whole province if government does not lodge FIRs against Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Nighat Orakzai and Balochistan Awami Party’s Shafiq Sher Afridi for violence against health staffers at HMC and PTI MNA Iqbal Afridi, who held hostage medical superintend in tehsil headquarters