Pandemic claims eight more lives in KP.

PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recorded eight more deaths due to coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the province-wide fatalities to 416.

A health department report regarding said that 179 new cases of coronavirus were also recorded during the last 24 hours, making the overall case count in the province 8,259.

It said that 49 patients, who had previously tested positive for the infectious ailment, were discharged from the hospitals after they got recovered and tested negative.

So far, the number of healed patients from the sickness in the province is 2,578, according to the report.

Swat recorded four of the new deaths, for the first time more fatalities than Peshawar since the onset of the pandemic. So far Peshawar has been leading the daily list of fatalities in the province. Two people passed away in Peshawar and one each in Malakand and Bajaur.

Peshawar, the capital of the province, has been leading in fatalities from the virus with 237 deaths so far.

Number of cases reaches 8,259 in the province

The district also recorded 60 new confirmed patients, making the overall tally of its cases 3,071. Peshawar, the most populous city of the province, has been atop of deaths and cases registered from the virus.

Three hospitals including Khyber Teaching Hospital, Hayatabad Medical Complex and Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar are catering to the needs of Covid-19 patients where most of the total deaths have taken place so far.

Swat, another endemic district, has so far recorded 36 deaths due to the virus. It also confirmed 31 fresh patients, making its total count 738, second after Peshawar in deaths and cases.

Dir Lower, which has also recorded eight deaths, recorded 17 new cases, making number of total patients 248. Abbottabad also detected 17 new patients, making...

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