Coronavirus cases surge in Mansehra after Eid
July 27, 2021
MANSEHRA: The number of coronavirus cases have surged in the Mansehra district after the Eid ul Azha as the district administration sealed the Bandi Syedain area of Garhi Habibullah following dozens of locals who contracted the virus were shifted to the health facilities.
“We have imposed a smart lockdown and started disinfecting the entire area as dozens of cases have been reported from this locality,” Assistant Commissioner Hasrat Khan, told reporters in Balakot on Monday.
Deputy Commissioner Qasim Ali Khan ordered the enforcement of the smart lockdown and disinfecting of the entire area after Covid-19 cases were reported from the Bandi Syedain and its adjoining areas.
National
April 26, 2021
MANSEHRA: The deputy commissioner has notified the closure of all private and public schools and colleges in the district in view of the rising cases of the coronavirus.
“According to the Health department, the Covid-19 positivity ratio has jumped to over a 7 percent in the district, therefore, in pursuance of the recommendations of the National Command and Operation Centre all public and private schools, colleges and universities are closed until the next order,” Deputy Commissioner Qasim Ali Khan told reporters here on Sunday.
He said the third wave of Covid-19 was more dangerous than the previous ones and the situation was deteriorating because of the non-compliance with the standard operating procedures (SOPs).
MANSEHRA: The district administration in Mansehra has reopened 8,026 metres sewerage lines and nullahs along the Karakoram Highway and at other main arteries in the.
Balakot residents raise multiple issues at public forum
Peshawar
January 29, 2021
MANSEHRA: The people of Balakot on Thursday raised at an open forum the various issues faced by them since long as the provincial and federal governments had failed to have them resolved.
The forum was arranged in Balakot, the town, which was completely destroyed in a devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005.
They decried the delay in the development of Rs13 billion new Balakot City Housing Project, appointment of teachers and other staff at the Girls Degree College, lack of potable water supply and other issues at the forum.
“The government has acquired our agriculture land for the 880 megawatt Suki Kinari Hydropower Project in the Kaghan Valley but the company executing this mega energy project has not honoured its agreement with locals,” Mian Ashraf, a local leader of Jamaat-i-Islami, said.
MANSEHRA: A five-day anti-polio vaccination drive is being launched formally across the Mansehra district today (Saturday).
“Making the country polio-free is a national cause and we should come forward wholeheartedly in this noble mission and ensure that none of the children misses polio drops,” Deputy Commissioner Qasim Ali Khan said while speaking at the polio launching ceremony at his office here on Friday.
He inaugurated the drive after administering the polio drops to children brought in from various parts of the city and its
suburbs.
Dr Mushtaq Tanoli, district health officer, said that around 258,800 children of five and below five years of age would be administered the drops across the district during the anti-polio drive.