ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi tested positive for coronavirus.
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb revealed that former prime minister has tested positive for COVID-19 and quarantined himself at his residence.
Abbasi becomes the lastest high-profile individual who has contracted the coronavirus. Earlier, former Sindh minister Sharjeel Memon said he has tested positive for coronavirus and has gone into self-isolation.
Memon is the Sindh government’s focal person for coronavirus in Hyderabad and also attended the provincial assembly session a couple of days ago.
Last week, Minister of State for Narcotics Control Shehryar Afridi announced that he has tested positive for coronavirus. He said that he had gone into self-isolation after testing positive for coronavirus.
PML-N Punjab Assembly lawmaker Mian Naveed Ali from Pakpattan had tested positive for coronavirus, while two provincial assembly lawmakers also been victims of the deadly disease.
PTI MPA Mian Jamsheduddin Kakakhel from Nowshera and PML-N MPA Shaukat Manzoor Cheema from Gujranwala both passed away after being on a ventilator for a few days.
Meanwhile, Nawabzada Shah Zain Bugti, grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, and his four guards tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday. Bugti has quarantined himself at his home after contracting the virus.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan now has passed 100,000 mark and currently stands at 103,671 after the detection of 4,728 new infections in the last 24 hours.
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