PESHAWAR: Adviser to the Chief Minister (CM) on Information Ajmal Wazir here Monday said the threat of
coronavirus was still persisting in Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KP) and a strict lockdown would be enforced if
the standard operating procedures (SOPs) notified by the government were violated by anyone in the
province.
“The further easing of lockdown or its re-enforcement with more vigour was dependent upon the attitudes
of traders, businessmen and people in the province,” he stressed in a news briefing here.
He said CM Mahmood Khan and districts administration were monitoring the situation on ground and
shops violating SOPs would be sealed.
He said Major Muhammad Asghar who was fighting against coronavirus on frontline at Torkham Border
in Khyber district has laid down his life to save his people from the fatal disease, adding that his supreme
sacrifice would not go waste and will be remembered in golden words for long.
He said ENT Professor Muhammad Javed was also died of coronavirus, adding sacrifices rendered by
armed forces, doctors, paramedics, rescue 1122, police, districts administration and others officials of
government departments in the fight against coronavirus would be written in golden words.
He said the number of coronavirus cases were surged to 4,669, 1,126 patients recovered and 245 died
in KP.
The adviser said 443 doctors, paramedics and others crew staff were deployed to look after patients in
quarantine centres.
He said 359 quarantine centres with capacity to accommodate 22,483 people were setup in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.
Wazir said 1,932 people returned from foreign countries especially in Gulf states to KP were placed at
different quarantine centres against whom 1,140 were sent homes after their tests were reported negative and 792 were still under observation.
He said spray on 25,833 acres land in 15 districts of KP were made to control locusts in the province.
