Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan is being recommended to be tested for the coronavirus or to go into isolation. The recommendations have come after he met a famous philanthropist who was tested positive for the COVID-19.
Imran Khan met Faisal Edhi, son of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation last week.
CEO of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, Faisal Sultan, told media that he would be meeting Khan on Tuesday.
“I will meet him and recommend that he gets tested…We will follow all protocols in place and make recommendations accordingly,” he said.
On Tuesday, Pakistan reported 16 more deaths from the virus that has impacted the world, taking the country’s death toll to close to 200. The number of confirmed cases in Pakistan are over 9,000.