Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has tested positive for Covid- 19 and was currently quarantined at his house.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz spokesperson Maryam Aurangzeb confirmed that Abbasi, who was in office from August 2017 to May 2018, has contracted the virus, The Express Tribune reported.
On Sunday, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Sharjeel Memon also tested positive for the contagion. Memon is currently under self-isolation as well.
Memon, who has served as provincial minister in the past, is the Sindh government’s focal person for coronavirus in Hyderabad.
MQM lawmaker Shahana Ashar had also tested COVID-19 positive during the assembly session.
Last week, member of Punjab Assembly Shaukat Manzoor Cheema succumbed to the disease, after a month long battle with the deadly virus.
MPA in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Mian Jamsheduddin Kakakhel, and Sindh human settlement minister Ghulam Murtaza Baloch also lost their lives to the virus in the same week.
Four other members of the K-P Assembly, Faisal Zeb Khan, Salahuddin Khan, Zeenat Bibi, and Jamshed Khan, also tested positive for the virus in the previous week.
