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NA Speaker Asad Qaiser tests positive for Covid-19

By News Desk
May 01, 2020

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest politician to come down with the disease.

“I have put myself in self-quarantine,” said the Speaker in a statement on Twitter. “I request the entire nation to take precautions and pray for my recovery,” he said.

He is the second high-profile member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to be infected, days after Sindh Governor Imran Ismail revealed he had tested positive.