Pakistan to lift lockdown from Saturday, despite rising COVID-19 curve

MG News | May 07, 2020 at 03:55 PM GMT+05:00

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May 7, 2020: Pakistan's coronavirus lockdown will be lifted on Saturday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, despite the fact that the number of cases in the country is still accelerating.

The decision is being taken because the country's large number of poor people and labourers can not afford to live under lockdown any more, he said on Thursday.

"We're deciding that we are ending this lockdown now," Prime Minister said in a televised address. "We know that we're doing it at a time when our curve is going up.... but it is not edging up as we were expecting."

Reuters

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