Separate graveyards for coronavirus victims, LHC seeks final arguments

Author: Web Desk

The Lahore High Court seeks final arguments on a petition seeking establishment of separate graveyards for COVID-19 victims.

Justice Shakilur Rehman Khan instructed the petitioner as well as the official respondents to forward their final arguments in the case on the next hearing slated for May 18.

The people affected by coronavirus are kept in quarantine to curb spread of the coronavirus and if any of the patients die of the disease, they are buried in a graveyard in accordance with stringent precautionary measures, the petitioner stated before the court.

The petitioner said that the victims of the highly contagious disease should be buried in separate graveyards.

As per the latest statistics released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 13,914 cases have so far been detected in Punjab, 14,099 in Sindh, 5,423 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2,310 in Balochistan, 501 in Gilgit Baltistan, 866 in Islamabad and 105 in Azad Kashmir.

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