Rescue 1122 staff disinfect a street in Landikotal, Khyber district on Wednesday to assist stop the coronavirus. PHOTO: PPI
PESHAWAR: The highest well being official within the province on Wednesday mentioned that as many as 39 folks from the Manga Union Council of Mardan district, the place the primary official novel coronavirus (Covid-19) casualty of the nation occurred, have examined constructive for the virus. Nonetheless, a each day state of affairs report issued by the provincial well being division solely confirmed two new circumstances within the province.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) Well being Minister Taimur Saleem Jaghra on Wednesday, in a video assertion, mentioned that swab samples of 46 folks, who got here involved with the Covid-19 sufferer Sadaat Khan within the Managa UC, the primary coronavirus dying of the nation, had been despatched for checks.
“Sampling has shown that out of 46 people tested in the UC, 39 tested as positive,” he mentioned, including, “All tested were asymptomatic.”
The well being minister additional mentioned that three folks had examined damaging whereas 4 samples had been rejected.
Urging the general public to stay at house, the well being minister mentioned that the rising variety of sufferers within the Mardan union council was a lesion that everybody ought to strictly observe the federal government’s lockdown directions in order that the virus may be stopped from spreading.
Not less than two others, who had gone for Umrah together with the deceased Sadaat, had additionally examined as constructive, the minister added.
A state of affairs report issued by the provincial well being division afterward Wednesday, nevertheless, mentioned that solely two new circumstances had been confirmed within the province over the previous 24 hours, whereas 138 suspected circumstances had surfaced.
The confirmed circumstances had been in Khyber tribal district and Swabi.
In Mardan, the well being division mentioned, had elevated from 50 on Tuesday to 165 on Wednesday, with 107 suspected circumstances detected. It added {that a} medical crew from the Khyber Medical College (KMU) had visited the UC on Wednesday and took 28 samples from quarantined people, whereas 59 samples had been taken from the neighborhood residing in adjoining areas.
Govt appoints focal individuals
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Well being Division has appointed 49 focal individuals on coronavirus throughout the province.
A notification issued on this regard mentioned that these folks will carry out duties in all districts of the province to facilitate the general public other than updating the well being division on Covid-19 from their respective areas, the notification learn.
Furthermore, the provincial authorities has dispatched 750 litres of sanitiser together with different important objects, together with anti-bacterial soaps, face masks, gloves, first assist packing containers, searchlights, hygiene kits to quarantine centres in Nowshera, Khyber, Battagram, Higher Dir, Orkazai, Kurram, Buner, Kohistan, Peshawar, DI Khan and Torghar districts.
638 docs appointed
The provincial authorities has determined to recruit as many as 638 further medical officers. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has authorized a abstract on this regard.
Earlier, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Well being Division issued appointment letters to at the very least 1,299 medical officers. With the contemporary appointments, the variety of newly-appointed medical officers has elevated to 2,000.
All these staffers will probably be employed in primary pay scale grade (BPS) 17 on six month-long-contracts. The contracts may be prolonged upon good efficiency.
In the meantime, North Waziristan district administration on Wednesday mentioned it has screened the 1,336 newly-arrived Pakistanis from overseas for Covid-19.
North Waziristan Deputy Commissioner Shafiullah Gandapur on the directives of the provincial authorities collected information of the folks of the district who had lately returned from overseas nations.
The deputy commissioner mentioned swab samples of the individuals who had lately returned to the realm from overseas had been shared with the NIH a couple of days in the past and none of them has examined constructive.
In the meantime, Abbottabad District Well being Officer Dr Faisal Khanzada on Wednesday shifted three docs to a quarantine centre within the district on suspicion they may very well be contaminated. As an additional precautionary measure, a bakery the place the physician and a few of his buddies had shopped was additionally sealed.
Sources mentioned {that a} Swat-based physician had returned from the US final week and had instantly self-quarantined himself in his village. Nonetheless, he travelled to Abbottabad metropolis yesterday and took up lodging within the Jinnahabad space.
Upon receiving info from the Swat district well being authorities, the well being authorities in Abbottabad traced the physician and his two medical colleagues. Police cordoned off the road on which they had been residing and motion within the locality was restricted because the three suspected sufferers had been shifted to a quarantine.
Revealed in The Categorical Tribune, March 26th, 2020.
