Using Spain, Italy, France, the UK and India as examples, the minster drew up statistics for the first 46 days per one million people in each country. “Barring a few, there is no country in the world that has a healthcare system that can completely eliminate the disease. Umar said the lockdown was hitting the government hard as it had suffered a loss of Rs119 billion in April alone. The minister said there were about 5,000 beds in ICUs across the country — 1,500 of them dedicated for Covid-19 patients. He said thousands had died in Europe countries but they were also relaxing their lockdowns to run their economies.

Source: The Express Tribune May 03, 2020 11:26 UTC