LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz has tested positive for COVID-19, days after she attended the AJK election campaign, ARY NEWS reported.
The confirmation was given by the PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb through her Twitter account.
She said that Maryam Nawaz has tested positive for COVID-19 and had quarantined herself at home. “Please pray for Maryam Nawaz and other ailing people,” she appealed.
It is pertinent to mention here that there is a rising trend of COVID cases in the country with India’s Delta variant being reported as a major variant in the patients recently infected by the virus.
On Wednesday, the COVID-19 claimed 44 more lives across Pakistan in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 23,133
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According to the latest National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) updates, as many as 4,119 new cases of Covid-19 emerged when 52,291 samples were tested.
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The positivity rate of infections was recorded at 7.8 per cent, it said. Pakistan’s caseload climbed to 1,015,827 after 3,262 new infections were detected.
A total of 2,898 patients are in critical care at hospitals across the country, the NCOC said, adding a total of 935,742 people recuperated from the disease since the outbreak of the pandemic.
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