Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi tests COVID positive, quarantined at home

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has tested positive for COVID-19 and has quarantined himself at home amid rising cases of coronavirus in country. Qureshi took to Twitter to inform about his health, saying he felt mild fever in afteron and immediately quarantined himself at home, ding that he will continue to perform his duties from re. 

Qureshi is latest senior Pakistani politician to test positive for vel coronavirus after Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’ bror Shehbaz Sharif, who les opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), tested positive in late June. PML-N leer Ataullah Tarar Ataullah Tarar h n blamed Prime Minister Imran Khan and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for putting life of Sharif in danger.

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Visa restrictions on Pak

Pakistan has been witnessing exponential growth in number of coronavirus cases and has reported over 221,000 cases with more than 4,500 deaths so far, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Recently, South Korean government anunced flight and visa restrictions from Pakistan and Banglesh after country witnessed a surge in coronavirus cases imported from se two nations. 

authorities have restricted issuing visas for people travelling from se two countries, except for diplomatic and urgent business purposes. new precautionary measures came into effect from June 21 and n-scheduled flights from se countries have also been temporarily banned. United Arab Emirates (UAE) has also temporarily suspended receiving passengers from Pakistan until a special COVID-19 lab is set up to test m.

World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that countries t taking pandemic seriously and refusing to allocate resources to combat health emergency will face a “long and hard ro ahe”. During a virtual press briefing, WHO Director-General Tedros ham Ghebreyesus accused some nations of opting a fragmented approach in combating vel coronavirus.

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