Mirpur remains locked-down on 3rd successive Day.

MIRPUR -- The lake-district of Mirpur -Azad Jammu and Kashmir remained under Covid-19 lockdown on third consecutive day on Wednesday.

People across the city and rest of the district mostly adhered to the prohibitory orders to help authorities overcome the spread of corona virus, that has gripped this ancestral district of over a million of the UK-based Kashmiri expatriates.

Local district administration had imposed the phased month-long lockdown, initially for one-week across the district with effect from March 1 to avert the threat of rapid spreading of the coronavirus in its ongoing second spell. The law enforcement agencies, AJK police, continued chasing those, mostly youngsters, roaming the streets on bikes unnecessarily and reportedly booked several of such roamers.

The lockdown clamped the district to disband the daily life for the sake of overcoming the spread of the epidemic. The streets continued giving deserted look as the shops, shopping malls and major business centers remained closed except only the milk, vegetables and fruits shops and petrol pumps.

All kinds of inter-city, inter-district and inter-provincial transport was halted to and from Mirpur Azad Jammu Kashmir during the lock-down. All universities, schools and colleges were continued to remain closed, besides closure of offices of all private and public-sector departments except banks and financial institutions across AJK following the lock-down to avert threat of the spread of the virus that engulfed entire district leaving the fatility of over 165 persons so far since the outbreak of the pandemic since about an year ago besides...