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KP to begin phase-wise educational institutions reopening from May 24 Pakistan Students wearing facemasks walk through a street to their school in Peshawar. AFP/File The higher and secondary educational departments said of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said Friday a staggered re-opening of all educational institutions in some districts of the province would start on May 24. The educational institutions are reopening in districts where the coronavirus positivity ratio remains below 5% a decision made in line with the National Command and Operations Centre s announcement. Public and private universities and colleges in districts Battagram, Buner, Chitral Lower, Chitral Upper, DI Khan, Hangu, Khyber, Kohistan Upper, Kohiatan Lower, Kolet Palas, Karak, Kurram, Lakki Marwat, Mohmand, Malakand, Orakzal, Swat, North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Tank, and Tor Ghar will open from May 24. ....
Austria to phase out AstraZeneca virus vaccine Top Story May 19, 2021 VIENNA: Austria will phase out AstraZeneca from its Covid-19 immunisation programme because of delivery problems and wariness among the population following reports of the vaccine’s rare side effects, the health minister said. Austria becomes the third European country to drop AstraZeneca, after Norway and Denmark ditched the vaccine over rare cases of severe blood clots in people receiving the jab. ”We will probably continue to do first shots with AstraZeneca until early June, and then that’s it. AstraZeneca will be discontinued,” Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein told private TV channel Puls 24 late Monday. ....
National May 19, 2021 NOWSHERA: Electricity supply remained suspended to several areas of the district after huge fire broke out in the high transmission line of Amagarh Industrial Estate grid-station on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses said that fire erupted in the high transmission line in the grid-station of Amangarh Industrial Estate, which subsequently fell down. They said that the fire Continued on page 9 ....
EFF warns of incompetence in phase 2 of the vaccine rollout The EFF has concerns about phase 2 of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. File photo. Image: Alaister Russell/Sunday Times The EFF is the latest political party to express concerns about alleged incompetence in phase 2 of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Phase 2 kicked off on Monday with the government administering the two-shot Pfizer vaccines at 87 sites across the country. Eighty-three of these are in the public sector and four in the private sector. Phase 2 will see the elderly and people with comorbidities receiving their jabs. This phase of the programme is set to continue until October 17. ....