Pakistan President Arif Alvi tested positive for COVID-19, the latest top leader to contract the coronavirus in the South Asian country that is facing a new wave of infections.
"I have tested positive for COVID-19," the president said in a Twitter post. Alvi said he had the first dose of the vaccine and the second was due in a week. The defence minister Pervez Khattak has also tested positive for the virus, Imran Ismail, a senior leader of ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, said.
Pakistan's government has tightened curbs, closed schools and some businesses in the past week after the nation's coronavirus positivity rate has increased to 11 per cent, the most since the start of the virus a year ago. Prime Minister Imran Khan tested positive for COVID-19 on March 20.
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