On 15 march pakistan deported 10 afghans at torkham after they developed flu like symptoms. The second case at the border was a pakistani embassy employee from kabul. It was reported that one afghan citizen with coronavirus was returned from torkham to afghanistan.
Pakistan identified two positive cases at the torkham border on 12 march. According to a spokesperson for pakistan institute of medical sciences pims in islamabad dr wasim khawaja the coronavirus test results for a patient who came from skardu were positive. Pakistan crossed a critical mark of the outbreak in the country as the total number of cases surged above 10 000 on 22 april.
27 of the total positive cases in the country were linked to the religious congregation of the tablighi jamaat. A report released on 21 april stated that over 2 000. But instead the image of president dr arif alvi wearing the high end n 95 medical mask tweeted out on social media has further inflamed tensions between pakistan s government and those on the.
Pakistan confirms first death from coronavirus as number of positive cases rise to 289 representative image majority of pakistan s covid 19 cases are linked to those who went on pilgrimage to iran one of the countries hardest hit by the disease while less than half a dozen are locally transmitted. Pakistan on monday has reported 18 deaths from novel coronavirus while the total number of cases have surged to 1625 as 508 patients have been tested positive for the epidemic in sindh 144 in balochistan 593 in punjab 195 in khyber pakhtunkhwa 128 in gilgit baltistan 51 in islamabad and six in azad kashmir. Pakistan reports first death from coronavirus 195 people test positive the death was announced on a web portal the ministry launched on tuesday to keep a track of the spread of the coronavirus in.
Twitter last week a report circulated on social media that pakistan prime minister imran khan s wife bushra bibi has tested positive for the coronavirus. Imran khan and bushra bibi. On thursday evening a london based news media organisation broke a story claiming that the pakistani prime minister has been infected by the novel virus.
Speculations of pakistan pm imran khan testing positive for the coronavirus began brimming on social media after reports of british pm boris johnson contracting covid 19 emerged. He has been self. Last week pml n deputy secretary general attaullah tarar had tested positive for the virus.
After badar s positive report shahbaz has also been asked to have his corona test.
