The President of the Pakistan National Assembly said that he had contracted Covid-19 after he held a breakfast party to celebrate Ramadan and met with Prime Minister Imran Khan and other senior officials this week.
It was not yet clear if Khan would be examined, but he had already done so in April, and the result was negative after he met Faisal Idhi, head of the largest Pakistani charity, who was later confirmed to have contracted the disease.
Edhi met Khan in the Prime Minister's office.
The National Assembly is currently on vacation, although opposition parties are demanding that it convene to discuss the government's handling of the outbreak of the Coruna virus in the country, which has recorded 16,817 infections and 385 deaths.
And the decision to convene the council in the hands of its president, Lion Caesar, who announced yesterday that he had contracted the virus in the capital, Islamabad.
"He was self-isolated in my house," Caesar, one of Khan's closest aides, wrote on Twitter. He had met Khan on Monday, and had met several senior officials in the past days.
Caesar hosted a breakfast party on Monday attended by politicians and dignitaries.
The daily monitoring of the virus recorded a record high over the past three days in Pakistan with the intensification of the testing procedures. 990 new cases were detected on Thursday. The country, with a population of over 207 million, continues to perform about 8,000 examinations daily.
The government says the infection rates are far below expectations, noting that it intends to ease more measures of public isolation after it has already opened dozens of commercial and industrial activities and also allowed group prayers in mosques.
And Qaisar, the second senior official infected with the virus in Pakistan, after it was confirmed that Imran Ismail, governor of Sindh province, had confirmed the disease on Monday.