Maulana Tariq Jameel, Pakistan’s leading religious scholar, contracted the coronavirus and was hospitalized on Sunday.
He asked his followers to pray for his recovery and health in a post on Twitter, requesting ‘special prayers’ from his viewers.
Today, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, too, took to Twitter to wish the scholar ‘a speedy and full recovery’.
Coronavirus has been rapidly surging in Pakistan, taking the total number of cases to 440,787, as per data provided by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC). In the last 24 hours, 36 people have succumbed to the virus.
