ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has tested COVID-19 positive on Saturday, confirmed SAPM on Health Dr Faisal Sultan
Dr Faisal Sultan in his tweet said that the premier has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating at home.
The premier received a coronavirus shot on Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office had said.
Indus Hospital CEO Abdul Bari Khan refuted reports of there being a possibility that one can get COVID-19 from a vaccine. He said that it is “normal” and “common” to get infected if you have been exposed shortly before being vaccinated.
He told that antibodies develop after two to three weeks of being vaccinated.
Commenting on the premier getting coronavirus, Khan said the Prime Minister is a healthy man and will recover without trouble.
According to Federal Parliamentary Secretary National Health Services Nausheen Hamid, the Federal Government Hospital’s staff administered the vaccine to the premier.
After receiving the jab, the prime minister had appealed to the people to continue exercising precaution in view of the third wave of the pandemic.
