2 doctors who were performing their duties and giving treatment to COVID-19 patients in Dera Ghazi Khan quarantine center have themselves tested positive for coronavirus. As per Punjab Secretary for Primary Healthcare Muhammad Usman, both doctors were treating COVID-19 patients in the DG Khan Isolation ward. The doctors identified with Covid-19 have been kept in an isolation ward and are undergoing treatment, said health secretary, He said that the condition of both doctors is out of danger. Earlier, a young physician, Dr Osama Riaz, became the first Pakistani doctor who died of coronavirus which he had contracted while physically handling suspected COVID-19 patients returning to Gilgit-Baltistan from overseas and other parts of Pakistan. Dr Osama was part of 10-member team of the doctors tasked with screening patients returning from downtowns, particularly those arriving there from Iran via Taftan. He later started providing services to the suspected patients in isolation centres established for them in Gilgit.