Coronavirus screening begins at Torkham border.

LANDI KOTAL/TIMERGARA -- A seven-member medical team has started checking of passengers entering Pakistan from Afghanistan at the Torkham border for the suspected coronavirus.

According to a statement issued from the office of Khyber deputy commissioner Mehmood Aslam Wazir, the team would check those suspected passengers who were suffering from flue, fever, cough and other chest infections. The team members would also collect travel data of the suspected patients.

Meanwhile, amid coronavirus threat, the Lower Dir health department conducted screening test of the Chinese nationals and their technical staff working on the Koto hydropower project in the district.

The health department's focal person Dr Irshad Rughani...