PESHAWAR: Deputy Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Mahmood Jan has tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.
On a social media website Twitter, the deputy speaker said his wife and son have also contracted the contagious disease. “Me, my wife and my son are covid positive. Please pray for us,” he wrote.
Me my wife and my son are covid positive please pray for us.
— Mahmood Jan (@MahmoodJanPTI) November 14, 2020
ڈپٹی سپیکر خیبر پختونخوا اسمبلی محمود جان ,ا اہلیہ اور انکے بیٹے ایان کا کورونا وائرس ٹیسٹ مثبت آگیا ہے۔جس کی بناء پر وہ 14 روز کرنٹائن میں رہیں گے لہذا عوام سے انکی صحت یابی کیلئے دعا کی اپیل ہے۔@MahmoodJanPTI
— Engr Zohaib Khan ???????? (@zkhancecosian) November 14, 2020
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.
The news came as 2,165 cases were reported in Pakistan over the last 24 hours, with 17 people dying from the virus.
The total cases in Pakistan as of Saturday were 354,461, with total deaths at 7,109.
There are currently 24,938 active cases in the country, of which 1,316 are said by the national dashboard to be critical — with 97 on ventilators.
In KP, the total number of cases so far stands at 41,723, and 1,724 are currently active. The province’s total deaths number 1,305.
