Corona positive journalists seek govt help to recover from disease.

PESHAWAR -- Two journalist brothers working from news channels, who have been tested positive for the coronavirus, on Friday appealed to the government to help them in recovering from the contagion.

Asif Shehzad and his younger brother Wajid Shehzad were tested positive with the coronavirus three days back and advised by the doctors to go to self quarantine.

Talking to the media men on phone, Asif Shehzad said the two brothers while performing their duty at their respective TV channels, started feeling fever and pain in their bodies. They got themselves tested at Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) and were declared positive for the coronavirus.

The doctors advised to go into self isolation, but it was difficult for them at a small house with 22-member family, including kids, their ailing mother and elder brother, he added.

'We were told that all the...

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