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Pakistan Prime Minister, Khan tests positive for COVID-19
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The Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has tested positive for COVID-19.
The country’s Health Minister, Faisal Sultan, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle on Saturday, however, said the prime minister is “self-isolating at home.
The 68-year-old former Cricket star was vaccinated for COVID-19 on Thursday.
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Pakistan has 623, 135 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 13,799 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The government recently reintroduced partial lockdown in parts of the country following the spike in COVID-19 cases.
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