Peshawar: Another doctor passed away due to the coronavirus in Peshawar on Saturday, a few days after being diagnosed with the deadly disease.


According to Provincial Doctors Association, Dr. Ehsan-ul-Haq was undergoing treatment at the coronavirus ward of Ayub medical Complex, Abbottabad. He was posted as Deputy Director Medical Services Pathology at the same hospital.
Funeral prayers of Dr. Ehsan-ul-Haq will be offered in his native village.
Provincial Doctors Association has said that doctors and other health workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who passed away from the deadly virus, are still deprived of the Martyrs' Package approved from April last year.
The total number of doctors who have passed away after contracting Covid-19 has reached 69 in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa.
Pakistan has reported a share surge in Covid-19 deaths as threat of delta variant looms large in Pakistan.
According to National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), around 4,720 cases of coronavirus were reported while 95 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 23,797.
The total number of confirmed cases reached to 1,063,125.
As many as 959,491 patients have recovered from the disease with 118 critical cases.

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