Ajmal Wazir. PHOTO: PTI
PESHAWAR: The province on Friday reported as many as 53 new instances of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), with studies that the instances included a provincial meeting lawmaker and a member of the family of the Nationwide Meeting Speaker Asad Qaiser.
Elsewhere within the province, some mosques remained closed for Friday prayers whereas particular prayers in opposition to the virus had been supplied within the province.
In a televised video message, Adviser to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) Chief Minister on Data Ajmal Wazir on Friday mentioned that the full variety of constructive Covid-19 instances within the province had soared to 176, almost double the 76 instances which had been reported by the provincial well being division simply three days in the past.
Wazir added that 53 new instances had been reported up to now 24 hours, together with three from Swabi.
In the meantime, he mentioned that the variety of suspected Covid-19 instances had risen to 716.
He urged the general public to undertake the precautionary measures and to cooperate with authorities directives to remain wholesome.
Lawmaker contaminated
Stories surfaced on Friday that Abdul Salam Afridi, a member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial meeting from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has examined constructive for Covid-19.
Afridi hails from Manga space of Mardan, the place the nation’s first demise because of the virus was reported and has since been sealed and round 40 instances have been reported from the locality.
The lawmaker has been quarantined in his home as he remained in his constituency regardless of provincial authorities directives.
There have been additionally studies {that a} member of Nationwide Meeting Speaker Asad Qasier’s household had additionally examined constructive for the virus on Friday.
A member of the family informed The Categorical Tribune that the speaker’s household was examined for the virus and after one take a look at got here again constructive, they had been shifted to a quarantine centre in Islamabad.
Space sealed
In the meantime, the Charsadda district administration sealed an space within the Tangi tehsil on Friday after a person examined constructive for Covid-19 there.
Other than the person, round 30 of his neighbours had been additionally quarantined and the swab samples had been obtained from them to conduct assessments for the virus.
Friday prayers
Some mosques in Peshawar remained closed on Friday for the weekly prayers. This included the 100-year-old Sunheri Mosque which had solely final month opened its doorways for girls after a 25-year hiatus.
Nonetheless, many different mosques throughout the province held common Friday congregations.
In the meantime, particular prayers had been supplied on Friday whereas khateebs and prayer leaders included Covid-19 consciousness messages of their Friday sermons.
Prayer leaders urged the general public to remain at house and observe the provincial authorities’s directives for social distance within the prevailing emergency state of affairs.
A particular salat-e-Toba was additionally supplied within the main cities together with on the Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary in Panjpir, Sahan Kot in Mardan and at varied seminaries within the provincial capital and southern districts.
Revealed in The Categorical Tribune, March 28th, 2020.
