{"id":149804,"date":"2020-03-17T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=149804"},"modified":"2021-03-22T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:06:01","slug":"provincial-machinery-put-in-full-gear-to-counter-the-corono-virus-threat-ajmal-wazir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2020\/03\/provincial-machinery-put-in-full-gear-to-counter-the-corono-virus-threat-ajmal-wazir\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial machinery put in full gear to counter the Corono Virus threat : Ajmal Wazir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-149804-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Advisor-info-press-conf-peshawar.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Advisor-info-press-conf-peshawar.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Advisor-info-press-conf-peshawar.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>PESHAWAR, March 17(ApP): Khyber Paktunkha Chief Minister\u2019s advisor on media, Ajmal Khan Wazir has said that the provincial machinery has been put in full gear to counter the Corono Virus threat and all measures have been taken to treat the patients until their recovery while screening and testing of those arriving fro Taftan will be carried out\u00a0 to\u00a0 minimize the risk of virus spread.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference at the Medai Cenere in Peshawar Ajmal Wazir rejected the social media reports about the Darazada Quarantine as rumors and said, all the patients at the center have arrived from Taftan and more than 225 will be reaching Tuesday evening who will be screened accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Ajmal Wazir rejected the reports of death of patient due to crona at the Haytabad Medical Complex and said that he died of pneumonia but did not test positive for the virus, the rumour mongers should not terrorize people by such stories and the media must also play its positive role. He said that the situation is difficult but the nation must stand committed, we are going to fight it out by all means.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said that a task force under Chief Minister Mehmmod Khan is monitoring the Corna situation and more decisions are in the offing as per need.<\/p>\n<p>The advisor further said that chief minister has also reduced two months sentence of all prisoners but the decision will not be valid for prisoners detained on terrorism charges, adding \u201cthe chief minster has also ordered provision of ration to the corona virus affectees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ajmal wazir remarked that as part of precautionary measures\u00a0 all government employees above 50, female staff, those with some ailment have been given 15 days leave, while skeletal staff is being maintained at all government officers while unnecessary visitors are also banned from visiting government offices.<\/p>\n<p>He said that imams of mosques and ulema are requested to highlight the issue and advice the masses about cleanliness and personal hygiene, while its also suggested that juma prayers may be offered in turn and rush and congestion in mosques should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>About Dera Ismail Khan issue, Ajmal wazir said,\u00a0 two hundred bed isolation ward has been set up at Mufti Mehmood Hospital, Gomal college to take care of the patients, adding so far 65 patients have been tested, 15 turn out to be positive, thirty three are cleared while result of\u00a0 17 is awaited.<\/p>\n<p>About Torkham border arrivals, he said a 150 bed facility has been set up at Shakas and those if found contracted with virus will be kept there after their entry to the country after screening and checking.<\/p>\n<p>Ajmal wazir remarked that all new appointments have been suspended in governments departments apart from police inductions while all trainings and functions have also been suspended till next order<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VNS Peshawar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/ow9d\">Download Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, March 17(ApP): Khyber Paktunkha Chief Minister\u2019s advisor on media, Ajmal Khan Wazir has said that the provincial machinery has been put in full gear to counter the Corono Virus threat and all measures have been taken to treat the patients until their recovery while screening and testing of those arriving fro Taftan will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Advisor-info-press-conf-peshawar.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-352-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149816,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149804\/revisions\/149816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}