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Mirpur may face lockdown to curb Covid spread
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MIRPUR: Authorities in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Mirpur district were on Friday seriously contemplating to impose a lockdown in view of a rapid outbreak of Covid-19 in its second wave that has claimed 160 lives in the district so far.
Citizens were advised by health authorities to strictly adopt preventive measures to overcome the rising trend of the novel coronavirus in the district since the outbreak of the epidemic. The territory’s death toll is 296, so Mirpur’s fatalities are disproportionately high. AJK has seen about 10,101 infections.