{"id":26448,"date":"2020-05-31T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/pakistan-minister-shehryar-afridi-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-05-31T18:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:27:19","slug":"pakistan-minister-shehryar-afridi-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26448","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Minister Shehryar Afridi tests positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Islamabad:<\/strong> Pakistan&#8217;s Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) and Narcotics Control Shehryar Afridi has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, he announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have tested positive of COVID-19 &amp; have isolated myself at home as per advice by medics,&#8221; Dawn news quoted the Minister as saying in the tweet on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His announcement comes weeks after Sindh Governor Imran Ismail and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser had tested positive for the virus. Both officials have since recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani, who himself went into isolation after being infected with the virus in March and subsequently recovered, tweeted a &#8220;get well soon&#8221; message to Afridi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far 68,554 people across Pakistan have been infected with the virus that has killed 1,447 in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan&#8217;s Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) and Narcotics Control Shehryar Afridi has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, he announced on Twitter. &#8220;I have tested positive of COVID-19 &amp; have isolated myself at home as per advice by medics,&#8221; Dawn news quoted the Minister as saying in the tweet on Saturday. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}