Pakistan's epidemic worsens, WHO advocates partial closure

Pakistan’s epidemic worsens, WHO advocates partial closure

As part of Europe and the United States began to weaken epidemic control. The epidemic in some parts of the world is intensifying. The World Health Organization noted that in Pakistan. The fifth-largest country in the world with a population of more than 200 million people, the coronavirus epidemic is accelerating.

A French RFI report says official data shows that there are about 117,200 patients in Pakistan and more than 2,300 people have died. Due to a lack of testing, this figure is considered seriously underestimated. The World Health Organization (OMS) advocates for local closure measures to control the spread of the virus.

According to the French journalist Sonia Soni on Thursday (June 11, 2020) from Islamabad, between the closure of the city and the restoration of work. This is a statement by the World Health Organization in the provinces of Pakistan Punjab and Sindh. These two factors are heavily influenced by the epidemic: recommendations from the most populous provinces. Many local hospitals are already overloaded. Medical personnel is holding their breath from their busy work, and the medical system is unstable.

However, the federal government continued to refuse to insure the complete closure of the city. At the beginning of the epidemic, the prime minister said that if a ban on the feet could save lives, they would starve to death. Thousands of workers in Pakistan spend their lives daily. However, at the end of March, some cities took decisive measures to close it.

Pakistan may reproduce an epidemic peak at the end of July

In early June, all restrictions have been lifted, shops have been reopened, and so have restaurants, but only for takeaways. The school still did not open the door. As the epidemic accelerated. Only a few people wore masks in public places. The next peak epidemic is expected to be at the end of July. The Chief Minister of Sindh said that the local government did not want to end the closure of the city. But the federal government gave the opposite instruction and they could not help it.

Another 48 deaths, 2,705 new cases in Pakistan’s Punjab province

Pakistan’s Punjab province currently suffers the most from Corona compared to the rest of the country. This is the first province where the number of victims has exceeded 50,000.

In the last 24 hours, 2705 new victims have been confirmed here. Which is the highest number of new victims in a day in the province.

But according to officials, many victims are recovering daily. Yesterday, 8014 people in Punjab recovered and left for their homes.

The number of people recovering is much higher than last month.

The highest number of 25,098 victims are from Lahore. While 878 health care workers have tested positive for corona.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of Corona victims worldwide has risen to 7,651,175.

So far, 425,888 people have died in the world, while 3,630,280 have recovered from the global epidemic.

The highest number of 2,048,986 victims is in the United States. This is followed by 828,810 in Brazil, 510,761 in Russia, 308,916 in India, and 294,402 in the United Kingdom.