AJK reports more Covid-19 cases.

Byline: Tariq Naqash

MUZAFFARABAD -- With the appearance of 12 more positive cases over the past 24 hours, the number of confirmed Covid-19 patients in Azad Jammu and Kashmir swelled to 105, a minister said on Thursday.

Five of the new patients were the family members of a medical store owner living in Plate neighbourhood of Muzaffarabad who had himself tested positive on Wednesday, said Dr Mustafa Bashir Abbasi, minister for information technology.

Another five were from the family of an elderly Gujranwala resident who had died of Covid-19 in Muzaffarabad a few days ago, he said.

The minister said the deceased person's son, working with a federal institution in Muzaffarabad, had secretly managed entry in AJK of his ailing father more than a week ago.

Three days after his arrival here, he...