Coronavirus: KP government confirms Pakistan's first two deaths

Pakistan has confirmed its two coronavirus-related deaths as two patients died in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from the novel coronavirus, KP Health Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra tweeted. The second announcement came less than two hours after a COVID-19 death was reported from Mardan district, which was the first death from the virus in Pakistan. The second fatality was a 36-year-old patient from Hangu, who was being treated at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital.
"Sadly, a second patient in LRH [Lady Reading Hospital] Peshawar, a 36-year-old, from Hangu, has also passed away, from coronavirus," Jhagra wrote in a second tweet later.
AFP adds: About the first death, Taimur Saleem Jhagra, the health minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told AFP the man died in a hospital in Mardan district after visiting Saudi Arabia earlier this month.