Pakistan PM Imran Khan tests negative for coronavirus

AFP

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested negative for the coronavirus.

According to media reports, the leader had taken the test after it emerged that a civil society activist who he had met had contracted the virus. 

Khan's samples were collected by a team of doctors from the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital.

Faisal Edhi, the chairman of Edhi Foundation, had developed flu-like symptoms and tested positive for the virus, a day after he had met the Prime Minister.

 

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