PML-N senator passes away due to coronavirus.

ISLAMABAD -- PML-N senator Kulsoom Perveen passed away due to the novel coronavirus, the Senate Secretariat said on Tuesday.

The senator had tested positive for COVID-19 last month and had been hospitalised at Ali Clinic in Islamabad. On November 27, Senate Vice-Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla said Kulsoom Perveen was put on oxygen.

The PML-N member assumed office as a senator in March 2015 and was due to retire next year.

Pakistan is currently grappling with a second wave of COVID-19 infections, it recorded has 58,486 cases in the past 20 days at a daily average of 2,924.3 infections.

The virus has claimed 1,301 lives in the last 20 days, raising the death toll to 9,392 with a mortality rate of 2.04%.

Condolences pour in

"Devastated to learn of our colleague Senator from PMLN, Kulsoom Parveen's passing," wrote PTI senator Faisal Javed Khan. "May ALLAH...