Death toll reaches 425 as nine more die of Covid-19.

PESHAWAR -- The death toll due to Covid-19 reached 425 on Wednesday as doctors at the medical teaching institutions of the provincial capital wanted the district level hospitals to manage the patients locally and save the Peshawar-based hospitals from overburdening with patients.

'We are actively admitting Covid-19 patients but other MTIs should step up efforts to lessen patients' load on us,' a senior doctor at Hayatabad Medical Complex told this scribe.

He said that beds were available at the hospital but because of better management facilities, they had a huge workload, more than double of other MTIs.

LRH director Dr Khalid Masud said they had admitted 32 patients, 16 in ICU and as many in high dependency unit (HDU). 'We have still empty beds in HDU and ICU but want the people to adhere to physical distancing measures and district hospitals to take Covid-19 patients,' he added.

According to him, 33 patients are admitted in the 105-bed corona complex and out them 15 are positive but there is a need to manage patients in district hospitals.

Doctors in Peshawar hospitals want district health facilities to manage patients

Peshawar recorded seven fatalities and Swat and Kohat one apiece, according to Covid-19 update released by the health department. The new cases detected in the province are 224, which took the total number of patients so far hit by the virus to 8,483, it said.

Not only deaths but the provincial capital is also leading the tally of Covid-19 cases in the province. It has recorded 3,150 confirmed patients, the most by any district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Pakistan so far. During the last 24 hours, it recorded 79 cases.

Peshawar has recorded 244 deaths due to the virus so far, according to the report.

Abbottabad detected 26 new cases, making its overall count 263. The city has also registered 12 deaths from coronavirus. In Dir Lower, 10 persons were diagnosed positive for the ailment, bringing its total number of affected persons to 258. Seven people have died of the infection in the district.

In Mardan, seven more patients were added to its list of confirmed patients, making its total tally 432. Mardan, the second populous district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after Peshawar, has also recorded 25 fatalities from the disease, according to report.

Six new patients were recorded by Haripur where total cases reached 88. It has also recorded two deaths from the pandemic so far. Cases in Kohat reached 119 with four fresh patients...