Malik Ashtar – a Nursing Staff, Gilgit, Pakistan – passed away after suffering from COVID-19 on March 29, 2020. Malik Ashtar was 55 years old.
Malik Ashtar, a radiology lab worker from Nagar district, had contracted COVID-19 locally while working with affected patients.
He was transferred to a quarantine center set up by the district administration after he showed symptoms. Around a hundred other Coronavirus patients who have recent travel history, mostly to Iran, have been kept in this quarantine center in Minapin, Nagar.
The affected paramedic Malik Ashtar passed away four days after being shifted to this quarantine center in Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan’s most hard-hit district.
His burial took place in Nagar under tight security and only concerned personnel were allowed to perform the final rituals.
Source: Gbee