Muzaffargarh Additional Sessions Judge Ahsan Mehboob Bukhari contracted Covid-19 and he quarantined himself in his house, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Saturday.

A week earlier, Muzaffargarh District and Sessions Judge Jawad Hassan was also diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Sources said that the judges’ staff have also been isolated after the reports of both judges came back positive.

In the last 24 hours (Friday), 3,073 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Punjab and 98 people breathed their last while battling the deadly virus, as per the data released by the National Command and Control Center (NCOC).

 

Reporter Amir Dogar