PIMS executive director tests positive for coronavirus.

ISLAMABAD -- Executive Director at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad Dr. Ansar Maqsood has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), media reported, citing sources.

They said the PIMS head has isolated himself at home after being diagnosed with the infection that is fast spreading among healthcare professionals at the forefront of the country's fight against the contagion.

Meanwhile, an admin officer of the PIMS has also been infected by the coronavirus.

The sources said 200 staffers of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences have been diagnosed as positive for the infection while three have succumbed to the deadly disease thus far.

Earlier today, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Dr...