PESHAWAR: After a significant decrease in reported COVID-19 cases, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has lifted lockdowns from 89 areas of the province on Saturday.
According to the health department’s focal person Dr Iftikharuddin, the government’s ‘smart lockdown’ policy had resulted in an 80 percent decline in the number of reported COVID-19 cases from these areas.
Iftikharuddin further said that no cases had been reported for the last six days from the area under lockdown in Mardan while Nowshera district reported one case on Friday compared to 31 cases on June 21.
Citing the details of the areas, he said lockdown restrictions were lifted from eight areas in Peshawar, five in Mardan, 15 in Nowshera, 12 in Bajaur, eight in Abbottabad, five in Lower Dir, four in Buner and Charsadda each, three in Haripur, Swat and Malakand each, and two areas in Upper Chitral, Upper Dir and Bannu each.
Iftikharuddin said just one case was reported from Mansehra district on Saturday, down from 32 cases on June 22, whereas Bajaur district reported three cases yesterday compared to 12 cases on June 16.
More than 50pc of COVID-19 patients in the province have recovered from the disease against a countrywide recovery rate of 48.08pc.
According to the World Health Organisation report, the province has so far recorded 27,506 coronavirus cases and 15,520 of them (50.42pc) have recovered.
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