Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday reported that he has tried positive for the coronavirus sickness and isolated himself, turning into the most recent senior lawmaker in the nation to be hit by the destructive infection.

Taking to Twitter, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) pioneer said that this evening, he felt a slight fever and quickly isolated himself at home.

"I have now tried positive for Covid-19. By the beauty of Allah, I feel solid and lively. I will keep on carrying on my obligations from home. If you don't mind keep me in your petitions," he said in a tweet.

Mr. Qureshi is the senior-most functionary of the legislature to be contaminated with the infection.

He is the Vice President of administering Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and considered as number two in the legislature after Prime Minister Imran Khan.

A few Pakistani administrators got the fatal infection and some of them have additionally passed on.

In June, Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Munir Khan Orakzai kicked the bucket, days in the wake of recuperating from the coronavirus.

Eight individuals from the Khber Pakhunkhwa Assembly have been tainted with the coronavirus.

National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser was likewise tainted yet recuperated.

Pakistan's coronavirus count has crossed the 221,000-mark with in excess of 4,500 passings.