Seven more Covid-19 patients in Attock, Taxila.

TAXILA -- Attock and Taxila reported seven new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, bringing their totals to 56 and 43, respectively.

Attock district's focal person on Covid-19, Dr Asif Arbab Niazi, said that a 69-year-old man from Jatail village near Kamra tested positive. He was already admitted to the Kamra Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Hospital.

The second patient is a native of Hazro tehsil who was received from the Expo Centre field hospital in Lahore with a Covid-19 diagnosis, while the third patient is from Jehri Kaas village in Hassanabdal and has been admitted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.

He said that one patient in Attock city has been isolated in Wapda Colony.

Dr Niazi said that two of the patients contracted the disease through local transmission and one had a history of travelling abroad.

Meanwhile, six relatives of a shopkeeper who had tested positive for Covid-19 were released from a quarantine facility in Fatehjang after completing the quarantine period and testing negative.

Dr Niazi said the number of suspected cases has risen to 1,388 in the district, while 4,215 have been screened as of Thursday. The results of 262 suspected patients are awaited.

Nine patients are being treated in various hospitals and 16 are at quarantine facilities in the district, he added.

Those in treatment at these facilities are stable.

He said seven areas were locked down...