BALOCHISTAN: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan has tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday.
On a social media website Twitter, Kamal said, “My Covid Test has come positive.” The chief minister did not specify whether he was feeling symptoms of the virus or not.
My Covid Test has come positive.
— Jam Kamal Khan (@jam_kamal) October 13, 2020
Meanwhile, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senior leaders Jam Madad Ali Khan and Rashid Rabbani have been put on ventilators after their COVID-19 symptoms worsened today.
Sindh Chief Minister’s Special Assistant Rashid Rabbani and former MPA Jam Madad Ali Khan had been diagnosed with the novel COVID-19 a few days back.
Hospital sources said that they were undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Karachi. The PPP leaders have been put on ventilators as their COVID-19 symptoms worsened today, sources added.
Several Pakistani politicians including PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif, ANP’s Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Sindh Governor Imran Ismail, Sindh education minister Saeed Ghani, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, and Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari had tested positive for coronavirus, after which they went into self-isolation and recovered.
PTI Punjab Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Shaheen Raza was the first lawmaker in the country who died due to COVID-19 a few months ago.
PTI MPA Mian Jamsheduddin Kakakhel from Nowshera and PML-N MPA Shaukat Manzoor Cheema from Gujranwala also passed away in June after being on the ventilator for a few days.
At least eight more people have lost their lives in Pakistan due to the coronavirus, taking the total death toll to 6,588 on Tuesday.
According to the National Command and Operations Center, 531 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 319,848.
In Pakistan, 34,609 patients have recovered from the coronavirus and the number of patients under treatment has dropped to 8,651. The coronavirus has killed 2,264 people in Punjab.
The death toll in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has risen to 1,264, in Islamabad 189, in Balochistan 146, in Gilgit-Baltistan 91 and in Azad Kashmir 78.
