Virus fatality rate in KP far more than other provinces

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As health authorities race to ratchet up their testing capabilities, the mounting number of Covid-19 fatalities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has left many of them to wonder whether the spread of the deadly virus is far more than what has been reported.

KP reported a total of 161 coronavirus fatalities on Friday, including the 15 previously unreported and unconfirmed deaths that have now been added to the tally. T

hese included suspected patients for whom swabs had been taken post-mortem but were reported after confirmation of the virus or their records were managed at the district level and were only now being added to KP’s database.

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