Fifth case of coronavirus confirmed in Pakistan

Iranian women wear protective masks to prevent contracting a coronavirus, as they stand at Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran February 20, 2020. (West Asia News Agency/ via REUTERS)
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March 3: Dawn report by Saleem Shahid and Jamil Nagri states that as the government began a weeklong closure of the border with Afghanistan at Chaman in Balochistan on Monday after the war-torn country reported its novel coronavirus cases, a fifth case of the disease was confirmed in Pakistan in the small hours of Tuesday morning.

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