Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: Daimi Begum, a 75-year-old shopkeeper near Bashalini in Karakar village of Kalash valley, used to run a big shop at the local Chowk (roundabout) before the COVID-19 lockdown started in March 2020. However, her business has now shrunk to a small room. She says the pandemic not only damaged her business […]
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PESHAWAR: The districts of Lower and Upper Chitral have reported 538 positive corona cases by Aug 8. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 on April 19 in Lower Chitral, five people have died of it, according to data released by the KP government. However, there has been no death from the virus in Upper Chitral where
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CHITRAL: The Corona Response Network (CRN) carried out an awareness campaign about COVID-19 in the far-off Broghil valley of Upper Chitral, says a press statement. CRN, consisting of a group of development professionals and volunteers representing a variety of NGOs, community organisations and private entities, was established in March this year. It has has been
CHITRAL: Twenty-four residents of Madak Lasht village have been diagnosed with Covid-19 during a random testing. Swab samples were collected from 40 villagers before being sent to laboratory by the health department. Regional head of Aga Khan Health Service Pakistan Mirajuddin confirming the new cases. Madak Lasht village borders the Swat district. He said most
CHITRAL: As many as 18 Covid-19 positive cases were detected in Lower Chitral on Tuesday. According to the lab reports available with ChitralToday, six of the new cases belonged to the Mijigram village of Garam Chashma. The others were different parts of the district, a majority from the Drosh tehsil. Meanwhile, Awami National Party\’s teacher
BOONI: A 103-year-old man has recovered from COVID-19 and sent home from a private emergency response centre in Booni Upper Chitral. The AKHSP in a statement on Tuesday said Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of Lot Dur in Booni, was admitted to the centre on July 1 and discharged the other day after recovering from
CHITRAL: The Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) in collaboration with the Patrip Foundation arranged COVID-19 safety kits worth Rs3.4 million for the frontline health workers of Chitral. In this regard, a function was held at the lawns of the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital where SRSP Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shahzada Masoodul Mulk handed over the
CHIRAL: A 35-year-old woman died of the novel coronavirus at the District Headquarters Hospital Lower Chitral on Thursday, Rescue 1122 said. It said the woman belonged to Hon village in the town and was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital hospital on June 30. During the hospitalization, her sample was sent
MOGH: The people of Garam Chashma are in the grip of a panic fearing the spread of COVID-19 in the entire valley from the worst-affected villages of Mogh and Nizh. Even after finding 11 people from Mogh, comprising about 60 houses, infected with the deadly virus, the village has not been sealed by the district
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BANG: A team of health officials sent by the district administration of Upper Chitral from Booni collected samples from 16 people in Bang village where a young man tested positive upon return from Karachi a few days ago. Moreover, the house of the patient in Upper Bang has been sealed and district administration and police
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