PESHAWAR: At least 23 drivers after returning from Afghanistan tested positive for COVID-19 which created fear among customs staff and agents.
Customs offices and stations and bonded carriers are essential services because these are keeping business afloat. However, these drivers have put other officials at high risk, as Customs had not been provided PPE by government. There had been no safety and precautionary measures to protect the essential services from the pandemic.
As many as 23 drivers were confirmed coronavirus positive here at a quarantine center of Landi Kotal. District Health Office (DHO), Khyber, Dr Tariq Hayat, while sharing details on Sunday said that two days back samples of 108 drivers and conductors, who had come from Afghanistan and were quarantined in Landi Kotal, were sent for investigation and now they are tested corona positive. He added that so far 23 persons out of 108 tests had been detected COVID 19 infected.
