LAHORE: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday tested positive for the Covid-19.

`Covid positive,` she said in a brief tweet on Saturday. She travelled to several districts of Punjab during the last two weeks in connection with the campaign for the party candidates on 20 seats in the province for Sunday`s (today) by-polls.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif prayed for her early recovery. `The way she led the PML-N political campaign has made all of us proud,` he said.

This is not the first time she has contracted the coronavirus. She previously tested positive in July last year.-Staff Reporter