As Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley emerged from COVID-en­forced iso­la­tion yes­ter­day, one of his Cab­i­net min­is­ters, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi en­tered iso­la­tion on Mon­day af­ter be­ing in­formed he was a pri­ma­ry con­tact of a re­cent COVID-19 pos­i­tive case.

This was con­firmed by the AG’s min­istry yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

But the AG has test­ed neg­a­tive for the virus.

Al-Rawi’s min­istry yes­ter­day stat­ed that af­ter he was in­formed he was a pri­ma­ry con­tact of a re­cent COVID-19 pos­i­tive case, in ac­cor­dance with pro­to­cols, he pro­ceed­ed to be test­ed for coro­n­avirus via a PCR test on Mon­day.

This was rec­om­mend­ed by the Min­istry of Health in the cir­cum­stances. The state­ment said the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al re­ceived a neg­a­tive COVID-19 test re­sult, with the word neg­a­tive writ­ten all in cap­i­tal let­ters.

But the min­istry added, “Out of an abun­dance of cau­tion and in com­pli­ance with COVID-19 pro­to­cols, the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al com­menced iso­la­tion for 14 days, from Mon­day.”

Al-Rawi is ex­e­cut­ing his roles and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties re­mote­ly via vir­tu­al plat­forms and oth­er rel­e­vant forms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, the min­istry stat­ed. Al-Rawi, speak­ing briefly yes­ter­day, said he was in good spir­its, adding that he’s con­tin­u­ing his work with­in iso­la­tion.

At this point, it’s not known if Al-Rawi will be out of quar­an­tine in time for the fu­ner­al of late Min­is­ter Franklin Khan who died re­cent­ly.

The fu­ner­al is ex­pect­ed in a cou­ple of weeks’ time af­ter Khan’s daugh­ter—who ar­rived from over­seas last Thurs­day—emerges from quar­an­tine.

It’s ex­pect­ed that Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley, now COVID free, will head the num­ber of Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials at­tend­ing the of­fi­cial fu­ner­al which is be­ing planned.