Peshawar records highest Covid mortalities in KP.

PESHAWAR -- Seven more people died of Covid-19 on Sunday as Peshawar continued to record more mortalities as it reported 50.4 per cent of the overall fatalities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Covid-19 positivity rate in Peshawar is 11.2 per cent, the highest in the country, according to a government report.

The province-wide death toll reached 1,839 and the provincial capital accounted for 927 coronavirus deaths since the onset of the pandemic.

A report of health department on Sunday said that of the seven people, who breathed their last due to coronavirus, five belonged to the provincial capital and one each to Swabi and Swat.

Over 26,000 test positive for virus

Peshawar also continues to witness more positive Covid-19 cases as so far 26,297 people have diagnosed with the infection of the total 65,532 reported positive for the infectious ailment in the province.

It has so far reported 40.12 per cent of the total positive patients in the province where case fatality rate is 3.5 per cent, up from 2.8 per cent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Of the total 3,233 active Covid-19 patients, 1,505 belong to the provincial metropolis, which is also

leading in the list of recovered patients with a score of 23,758 out of the total 60,222 people recovered from the infectious ailment. Peshawar also continues to record more cases as it has reported 122 more patients of the total 245 during the 24 hours.

The province has a total of 476 hospitalised patients of Covid-19, with 291 of them in Peshawar-based hospitals while the city is also host to 39 of the total 41 critical patients, who are on ventilators in the province.

The physicians, who are involved in the management of coronavirus patients, say that Peshawar has been the epicentre of Covid-19 since its advent in the province.

'It is not necessary that most patients dying of the virus and testing positive for it must belong to Peshawar as the people of province are in the habit of visiting the teaching hospitals, not only for Covid-19 but also for general ailments,' a senior physician told Dawn.

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