ABBOTTABAD: The Provincial Doctors Association (PDA), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Wednesday demanded closure of the district headquarters hospital after 26 employees tested positive for Covid-19.

Addressing a press conference, office-bearers of the association said that the hospital should be closed till disinfection spray was carried out. They said that coronavirus cases in the country had jumped to 59,151 after 1,441 new cases were reported during the last 24 hours.

According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Centre, 28 more deaths from coronavirus were reported in one day as the nationwide tally of fatalities now stands at 1,225.

As per breakup, 21,118 cases have so far been detected in Punjab, 23,507 in Sindh, 8,259 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 3,536 in Balochistan, 1,879 in Islamabad, 638 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 214 in Azad Kashmir.

So far, 19,142 patients have recovered from the deadly virus, while 38,784 are still under treatment.

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2020