Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday extended the ongoing lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic until the end of this month as the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 5,837 in Pakistan.
Addressing reporters following the National CoordinationCommittee meeting, Khan said that the ongoing restrictions have helped containthe spread of the deadly coronavirus.
“It has been decided that the lockdown will continue tillApril 30,” he said.
However, Khan said that some key industries would be openedin order to start business activities. “Our estimate was that 190 people willdie until today but so far we saw 96 deaths. The spread of the virus is just 30per cent of our projections,” the prime minister said.
His advisor on health Dr Zafar Mirza said the predictive modelling done by the experts estimated 18,000 patients until Tuesday but the actual number is less, he said. He said the death rate due to the virus was 1.6 per cent in Pakistan whereas it was 6.2 per cent in the world.