PESHAWAR: The June round of anti-polio drive was launched in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here Friday.KP Chief Secretary Kazim Niaz kicked off the round by administering drops to children at the Police.
PESHAWAR: A senior dental surgeon was among 12 persons, who died of coronavirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday.
Nine of the deceased belonged to Peshawar and one each to Bajaur, Abbottabad and Kohat, according to a report released by the health department.
The province’s tally of deaths stood at 2,469, and with 610 new infections reported during the last 24 hours the total number of cases has swelled to 93,033.
The province has a total of 11,534 active cases with 79,030 patients having been recovered. According to the report, 150 more patients recovered on Monday.
Peshawar continues to record more cases as it registered 171 patients on Monday, taking its tally to 38,020.
Vaccination of healthcare providers continues in KP
National
February 6, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department continued vaccination of the doctors and other healthcare providers on Friday against the fast-spreading the novel coronavirus in the province.
The Health Department had kicked off the vaccination drive in the province on Wednesday. Chief Minister Mahmood Khan had formally launched the immunisation campaign in Islamabad where he had called the doctors and other healthcare providers of Hyderabad Medical Complex (HMC), Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) and Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH).
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has received 16,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the federal government. China has gifted 0.5 million doses of the vaccine to Pakistan. The government has decided to vaccinate the healthcare providers and particularly the frontline health workers first as they directly dealt with Covid-19 patients in the hospitals.