Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan tested negative for the coronavirus, a minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“I am happy to report that his test is negative,” Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n
“Prime Minister Imran Khan was tested today [Wednesday] for SARS-COVID-19. The test used was a polymerase chain reaction”, she added.<\/p>\n
Khan was tested a day after the head of Pakistan’s top non-governmental relief agency, who met the premier last week, tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Faisal Edhi, the head of the Edhi Foundation, met Khan last Wednesday to donate 10 million Pakistani rupees ($61,162) for the government’s coronavirus relief fund in the capital Islamabad.<\/p>\n
“Faisal Edhi is currently in Islamabad, and has gone into self-isolation,” Saad Edhi, his son and also a spokesman for Edhi Foundation, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s coronavirus tally crossed 10,000 mark on Wednesday with 327 new cases. The Health Ministry said the total number of cases climbed to 10,076.<\/p>\n
Most of the new cases were confirmed in the southern Sindh and northeastern Punjab provinces.<\/p>\n
With three more deaths in the past 24 hours, the countrywide death toll rose to 212, the ministry confirmed, while the number of recoveries climbed to 2,156.<\/p>\n
After originating in Wuhan, China last December, COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has spread to at least 185 countries and regions worldwide, with Europe and the U.S. the worst-hit regions.<\/p>\n
There are more than 2.61 million cases worldwide and over 181,200 deaths. More than 703,500 have recovered from the virus, according to data compiled by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n
Despite the severity of the virus, most people experience mild symptoms and recover in due time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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