The number of Covid-19 has jumped up once again in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) including Peshawar, an official of the Health Department said here Saturday.

He observed that despite the end of harsh winter in the province, Covid-19 was once again spreading and experts feared that it was the start of yet another wave in the country which has already seen several waves of the infection.

The official maintained that seven cases of Covid-19 have been reported across the province during the last 24 hours.

He said that so far over around 6,376 people lost their lives to the Covid-19 infection since the start of the epidemic in Pakistan.

The total number of cases reported since the start of the pandemic in K-P has touched 225,261 mark, the official said.

He added one person has also recovered from Covid in the past 24 hours as the total number recovered patients has hit 218,739 mark.

He said over all 3,153 people have died of Covid in the past few years due to this infection amounting to almost 50 per cent of the total fatalities in the province and five new cases have been reported in in the district in one day.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 26^th, 2023.