Nine more died from Coronavirus in KP

F.P. Report

PESHAWAR: Nine people died from Coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2127 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the official of the Health Department confirmed here on Saturday.

The officials also confirmed that there were 305 cases of corona were reported in the same period and with such numbers, the numbers of total corona cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reached to 75,357.

However, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 115 corona patients recovered in 24 hours and with this the number of people recovering from Corona in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reached 70,360, the health department official informed. In Peshawar, 111 new cases of corona were reported in 24 hours wherein the number of corona cases in Peshawar has reached 30,678, the health department official said. He also disclosed that a total of 1131 people have died from corona in Peshawar only.

Health dept start vaccination to Citizens over 60 years of age: The vaccination to citizens over 60 years of age are being vaccinated against corona in the province, an official of the Health Department told media here on Saturday.

He said so far 2,075 senior citizens have been vaccinated against corona besides 28,175 health workers in the province have been vaccinated against corona. He disclosed that the number of health workers receiving the second dose of vaccine is reached to 2,768 with 6,897 health workers in Peshawar, 2,517 in Abbottabad and 1,823 in Swat, 998 health workers of Mardan, 884 of Kohat, 760 of Bannu and 733 of Dera Ismail Khan have been vaccinated.