Shafaq News / An informed source said on Monday that the Kurdish Minister of Finance and Economy, Awat Sheikh Janab, had been infected with Corona virus.

Sheikh Janab is the second minister in the regional government to be affected by the virus, after the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Aram Muhammad Qadir.

The source said, in a special statement to Shafaq News agency, that the Kurdish governmental  delegation were tested today Monday for Covid-19, and the results showed that the Minister of Finance and Economy was infected, so he will not accompany the delegation on their scheduled visit tomorrow to Baghdad,.