Nineteen more relatives of two coronavirus patients tested positive in Gujar Khan after their test reports were released. The new cases were close relatives of two Pakistanis who had returned from the UK and France.

A woman, who had returned to Ferozaal village from France had tested positive and is still under treatment at a Rawalpindi hospital.

Another patient was an 86-year-old man who had returned from UK and died in a hospital in Rawalpindi. He was buried in his native village Parian Thathi union council last week.

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