President Arif Alvi announced on Monday that he has been tested positive for COVID-19.

Taking to Twitter, Arif Alvi said that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and prayed that may Allah have mercy on all Covid affectees.

It is pertinent to be stated here that President Arif Alvi and his wife Samina Alvi on March 15 got their first anti-Covid jab during the second phase of the vaccination, where elderly people are being inoculated across the country.

According to details, the President and his wife visited the Tarlai vaccination centre in Islamabad, where they were administered the anti-COVID vaccine.

On the other hand, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak has also tested positive for the deadly infection, whose news was conveyed by Governor Sindh Imran Ismail.