PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has approved appointment of 1,299 medical officers in the health department on an emergency basis to deal with the corona patients. The chief minister signed a summary moved by health department to this effect. The newly-appointed MOs of the health department KP will resume their duties next week and be […]
CHITRAL: The district administration on Saturday started a general lockdown as a precautionary measure to check the spread of coronavirus due to which people mostly remained confined to their homes or stranded on roads for hours. The Lowari tunnel was closed at night as announced early on Friday but after three hours hundreds of vehicles
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DROSH: The government has decided to use 27 rooms of three educational institutions in Drosh as quarantine camps for suspected coronavirus patients coming from Karachi and other parts of the country. Local administration officials inspected the arrangements at the elementary college, higher secondary school and the Drosh college on Friday The officials said a large
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CHITRAL: MNA Molana Abdul Akbar on Saturday criticized the district administration for banning entry of public transport into Chitral from Lowari tunnel without consulting the elected representatives. Speaking to local reporters, he said thousands of people remained stranded at the tunnel on the night between Friday and Saturday as the district administration blocked their entry
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CHITRAL: The authorities have restricted the entry of public transport to Chitral region through Lowari tunnel and Shandur Pass for one month to check the spread of coronavirus. The borders of Arandu, Arsoon and Shah Sadim areas were also closed. Deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral Naveed Ahmad said 60 vehicles carrying 241 passengers were sent
CHITRAL: Chief Minister\’s Adviser Wazirzada MPA on Friday expressed dissatisfaction over arrangements made by the district administration to check the spread of coronavirus and cope with any emergency situation in Chitral and declared the preparation disappointing. Chairing a meeting at the office of DC Lower Chitral, Wazirzada said he just arrived in Chitral via the
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CHITRAL: Soon after announcing the opening of an isolation ward, the district headquarters hospital on Thursday evening referred a suspected patient to Peshawar. The medical superintendent of the hospital said the hospital had no screening facility and it would be better for the patient to get himself checked for the coronavirus in Peshawar. Mujtaba Hussain,
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CHITRAL: The district administration of Chitral on Thursday imposed Section 144 as a step to check the spread of coronavirus in the district. Under Section 144, gathering of five or more than five people will be banned in all restaurants, eateries, fast food outlets, beauty parlours, wedding/marriage halls, cattle fares, seminars, workshops etc. An announcement
CHITRAL: The medical superintendent (MS) of District Headquarters Hospital Chitral Dr Muhammad Shamim said a 12-bed isolation ward has been set up for coronavirus suspected patients at the 200-bed hospital. Speaking to local media persons at his office along with officials of the district administration on Thursday, Dr Shamim said so far not even a
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CHITRAL: Four points have been designated for screening of people coming to Chitral from down districts in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus in different parts of the country. According to a statement issued by the Lower Chitral deputy commissioner office on Friday night, in view of the reported cases of coronavirus in the
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