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, […]
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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.
However, the online mode of education would be continued as per practice in vogue.
It said that educational activities in the rest of the districts would commence from May 24 with a staggered approach, whereby students in a single class or grade might not be called for attending the institutions more than two days a week.
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 provincial death toll due to virus has reached 3,615 since its onset. The number of province-wide cases of the infectious ailment is 124,484 while 111,142 patients (89 per cent) have recovered so far.
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 coronavirus-related services to patients in hospitals as a last resort if perpetrators of the Friday violence at the HMC weren’t booked and dealt with strictly.
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 coronavirus-related services to patients in hospitals as a last resort if perpetrators of the Friday violence at the HMC weren’t booked and dealt with strictly.