Tariq Saeed
Peshawar
As the Corona pandemic is spreading at alarming pace in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where a couple of deaths and 453 new cases were reported on Thursday taking the number of total cases to more than 46000, two more members of the medical fraternity succumbed to COVID-19 in a week time. “Two nurses have died of the coronavirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in a week”. Health officials said Thursday. The nurses were from Abbottabad and Peshawar.
Earlier in the week another Doctor in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost his life after battling with the deadly Corona Virus thus raising the number of doctors killed by the COVID-19 in the line of duty to almost two dozen. Likewise till date the Corona Virus has claimed the lives of eight nurses in the provinces. The Medical Officer of Ayub Medical Complex Abbotabad Dr. Raja Asif succumbed to the novel coronavirus on Monday last. The hospital sources and his colleagues say, MO Dr. Raja Asif was being treated at Ayub Medical Complex and was later put on ventilator eventually losing battle to the deadly pandemic on Monday.
While the deadly Virus has so far killed eaten up more than 1346 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Health officials in Peshawar say medical staff including nurses, have been under pressure since the start of the second wave of the virus. According to health department statistics issued on Thursday, the total number of those contracted the COVID-19 till date was 46281 with 1346 deaths. 41200 people have recovered while 453 new cases were reported on during the last twenty four hours and two more people lost their lives to the Novel Corona Virus.
On the other hand the district administration Peshawar sealed more shops and business points for nor following the SOPs and fined hundreds of people specially the commuters for the not wearing the face masks despite the fact that wearing masks in Public has been made mandatory . The administration while expressing its dismay over the careless attitude of the masses with regard to adopting precautionary measures and social distancing , also fine dozens of people traveling in the BRT busses for not wearing masks.
In the meanwhile the religious scholars (Ulema) across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have vowed to stand with the provincial government in tackling the second wave ofcorona in the province and strictly enforce SOPs in all mosques, religious places and Jummah congregation in the province adding that as the Mosques and religious places of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were in the forefront in implementing the Corona SOPs in the first wave of Corona just like that would be forefront in the second wave of Covid19.
The members of the clergy participated a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Dr. Kazim Niaz in Peshawar Thursday. The meeting was also attended by eminent religious scholars from all the divisional headquarters under the chairmanship of the commissioners, via video links.
