Syed Abdul Rasheed, a Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) member of the Sindh Assembly has tested positive for coronavirus along with eight of his family members.
As per the details, MPA Abdul Rasheed is a resident of Lyari and has been actively participating in his party’s relief efforts amid COVID-19 lockdown. On April 25 he was diagnosed with COVID-19 coronavirus and went into self-isolation as recommended by healthcare experts.
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However, his family members including his mother, wife, sister and children have also tested positive for the novel virus.
Furthermore, another 21 of his relatives were tested for the virus as a precautionary measure. Their tests however, later came back negative.
He is the third politician in Sindh to be diagnosed with COVID-19. Prior to him, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail and Provincial Minister Saeed Ghani had contracted the novel virus.
Sindh has reported a total of 5,695 confirmed coronavirus cases, with 1,169 recoveries and 100 fatalities so far.
