A lawmaker of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Punjab Assembly, Mian Shafi Muhammad has contracted novel coronavirus, reported 24News HD TV channel Monday.

Mian Shafi has also been among the panel of chairmen in the present session of the house. He has quarantined himself after tested positive for the coronavirus.

Earlier, several legislators of the Punjab Assembly had contracted novel coronavirus. Malik Nadeem Kamran, an MPA of PML-N had also quarantined in his home after tested positive for the COVID-19.

In January a PML-N member of Punjab Assembly, Munira Yamin Satti, was died of novel coronavirus after her health worsened. Satti was put on a ventilator after she was declared critical after contracting novel coronavirus.

In December last year, PML-N Senator Kalsoom Parveen had also lost her life while battling against the novel coronavirus.