Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating at home, informed Pakistan’s infectious disease expert Sultan Faisal on Saturday on his Twitter handle. Khan received his first dose of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine just two days prior to the news. His wife and First Lady Bushra Bibi has also tested positive for coronavirus, as per Pakistani media reports.

68-year-old Khan received a shot of the Chinese-produced Sinopharm vaccine on Thursday — one of over a million doses donated to Pakistan by Beijing.

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Pakistan on Thursday also imposed smart lockdowns in areas reporting rise in coronavirus cases. All markets, shopping malls, offices, and restaurants will remain closed in the areas of smart lockdown. Only grocery stores, hospitals, pharmacies, bakeries, meat, and milk shops will be allowed to remain open.

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Punjab province Health Minister Yasmin Rashid had informed that smart lockdowns will be imposed in Gujrat, Sialkot, and Hafizabad, which will remain in effect till March 30 in Gujrat, March 24 in Sialkot and March 26 in Hafizabad.

The diagnosis comes as the country grapples with a deadly third wave of a virus that has already killed nearly 13,800 people from more than 620,000 infections — although limited testing suggests real figures are likely much higher

The impoverished nation of 220 million has largely avoided the kind of major lockdowns seen in other countries, instead opting for “smart” containment policies which see neighbourhoods closed off for short periods.