New Delhi: Pakistan has been unwilling to impose lockdown to save itself from Covid-19 pandemic, despite having ill-equipped infrastructure. And, there exists fear of Coronavirus spreading at a rampaging speed in case of no lockdown.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan has a reason to worry. Because, the son of a well-known Pakistani philanthropist, who met him last week, has been tested positive for the coronavirus.
Faisal Edhi, the son of famous philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, started showing symptoms last week soon after meeting with Prime Minister Khan in Islamabad on April 15, Dawn newspaper reported.
“The symptoms lasted for four days before subsiding,” his son Saad said. Soon after, he got tested for COVID-19 and the results were positive,” he added. Saad added that his father was currently in Islamabad and was doing better.
Faisal gave 10 million aid in Pak PM’s Covid-19 relief fund
“He has not been admitted to any hospital and is self-isolating,” he said. Faisal last week met Khan and handed over a Rs 10 million cheque for the premier’s coronavirus relief fund.
Social worker and head of Edhi Foundation, Faisal Edhi recently met PM Imran Khan: Courtesy Pakistan’s GEO News pic.twitter.com/wU1pPG6RUd
— ANI (@ANI) April 21, 2020
It was not known so far if Prime Minister Khan would undergo testing. The Edhi Foundation was founded by the late Abdul Sattar Edhi and is the leading charity organisation.
Edhi’s son Saad told Pak’s Geo News that everyone who had come in contact with him will be tested for the virus. However, Saad’s test reports didn’t show any symptoms of the virus.
