Coronavirus claims life of another doctor in KP

Dunya News

The number of casualties of the doctors from COVID-19 has surged to 58 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Third wave of coronavirus has claimed life of another doctor in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

According provincial doctors association, Doctor Muhammad Iqbal was admitted in ICU ward of Peshawar’s Hayatabad Medical Complex and was on ventilator from past two weeks.

The association further revealed that so far the deadly virus has claimed lives of at least 58 doctors in the province.

On the other hand, Pakistan has highest cases of coronavirus in over 9 months taking the number of positive cases to 739,818. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 15,872 on Thursday.

Punjab remains the worst-hit province in terms of deaths followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Furthermore 270,310 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Sindh, 258,441 in Punjab, 102,290 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 68,066 in Islamabad, 20,580 in Balochistan, 14,978 in Azad Kashmir and 5,153 in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Pakistan has so far conducted 10,942,771 coronavirus tests and 64,685 in the last 24 hours. 646,652 coronavirus patients have recovered in the country whereas 4,276 patients are in critical condition.

Till now 7,209 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab 4,533 in Sindh, 2,761 in KP, 625 in Islamabad, 420 in Azad Kashmir, 221 in Balochistan, and 103 in GB.