PML-N's Ayaz Sadiq contracts coronavirus
Ayaz Sadiq frequently visited his constituency and was active in welfare works.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Former National Assembly speaker and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has tested positive for novel coronavirus, Dunya News reported on Friday.
The PML-N leader has quarantined himself after contracting the virus. It has been learnt that Ayaz Sadiq frequently visited his constituency and was active in welfare works including distribution of ration among the needy.
Let it be known that a number of parliamentarians are suffering from the pandemic. Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif had tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
PML-N Member National Assembly Ahsan Iqbal, PTI MNAs Dr Ramesh Kumar and Farukh Habib, JUI-F MNA Shahida Akhtar Ali, MQM MNA Usama Qadri and Senator Sana Jamali earlier contracted COVID-19 and all of them quarantined themselves.
On the other hand, Pakistan has confirmed 107 deaths – highest till date – by novel coronavirus in one day as the number of positive cases has surged to 125,933. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 2,463.
According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), record 6,397 persons have been tested positive for COVID-19 in 24 hours.
Till now 47,382 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Punjab, 46,828 in Sindh, 15,787 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 7,673 in Balochistan, 6,699 in Islamabad, 1,030 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 534 in Azad Kashmir.
Furthermore, 890 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab, 776 in Sindh, 632 in KP, 75 in Balochistan, 65 in Islamabad, 15 in GB and 10 in Azad Kashmir.
Pakistan has so far conducted 809,169 coronavirus tests and 28,344 in last 24 hours. 40,247 coronavirus patients have recovered in the country whereas many are in critical condition.
