An FIR has been lodged against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Taimoor Jhagra and the manager of a restaurant for an Iftar where Covid-19 SOPs were violated
It is learnt that the restaurant owner asked the minister not to arrange the gathering but in a vain
The restaurant has been sealed by Peshawar district administration after lodging the FIR.
Meanwhile, the administration in the coronavirus-infected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has stepped up efforts to enforce SOPs against Covid-19 as 22 more people died of the coronavirus on Monday.
A health department report said that the provincial tally of Covid-19 patients was 114,661 of whom 98,045 recovered from the ailment. It said that 1,109 patients recovered during the last 24 hours.
There are 13,460 active Covid-19 patients in the province while 3,165 people have died. Peshawar recorded 10 mortalities and 73 fresh cases while Mardan registered five deaths and 68 cases. Two patients each died of coronavirus in Bannu and Abbottabad and one each in Dir Upper, Kohat and Swat.
