WHO urges Pakistan to impose new lockdowns
A family wearing masks at a market area in Karachi. Pakistan has recorded more than 108,000 cases of coronavirus, the health authorities say, as hospitals warn they’re running out of beds to treat patients. – AFP pic, June 10, 2020.
THE World Health Organisation has told Pakistan it should implement “intermittent” lockdowns to counter a surge in coronavirus infections that has come as the country loosens restrictions, an official said yesterday. Since the start of Pakistan’s outbreak in March, Prime Minister Imran Khan opposed a nationwide lockdown of the sort seen elsewhere, arguing the impoverished country could not afford it.
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