Punjab CM Usman Buzdar contracts coronavirus.

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar contracted coronavirus, confirmed his aide Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday.

According to a tweet by the chief minister's assistant, the CM Punjab had contracted the infection.

She blamed the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and their recklessness in holding public rallies and disregarding coronavirus health guidelines as being the cause for a "cautious" man like the chief minister contracting the infection.

"A sample of the chief minister was taken today for the [coronavirus] test after after he felt ill," a source at the Chief Minister House had informed Geo News. "The chief minister had quarantined himself after feeling sick."

Pakistan, like many other countries around the globe, is braving the second wave of the coronavirus.

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