ATTOCK - As many as 13 educational institutes have been sealed for one week by the district administration owing to appearance of corona positive cases among the teachers and students. The step has been taken to control the rising cases. Meanwhile, number of positive cases in the district has reached upto 1741. Those institutes which have been sealed include Government Girls High School Formali , Govt Boys High School Jalalia , Govt Girls High School Kalu Kalan , Govt Girls High School Waisa , Govt Boys High School Formali , Govt Girls High School Shamsabad , Govt Girls High School Baryar , Govt Boys High School Chhab , Govt Boys High School Dakhner , Govt Boys High School Mianwala , Govt Boys High School Jabbi Kisran , Govt Boys High School Bahtar , Govt Girls High School Jabbi Kisran.   

As per Incharge Dr Kashif Hussain Incharge Corona Cell  Attock, so far, 33251 patients were screened and out of these patients 1741  were found positive, 27140 were found negative while result of 1118 suspects is still awaited. The incharge said that so for 34 corona patients have died, 1,363  recovered while 16 are under-treatment in DHQ Hospital Attock. He said that 340 corona patients were home quarantined. Meanwhile, The police arrested two drug peddlers during a raid conducted here on Wednesday and recovered more than 10kg hash from their possession. According to police, acting on the directions of DPO Faisal Shehzad, Gogera police during an operation against drug dealers, arrested an accused Fida Hussain and recovered 6.1kg hash. Meanwhile, 4.2kg hash was recovered from the possession of accused Ahmed Saeed alias Saee. Police had registering separate cases against the accused. Further investigation was underway, said police.