Fig:1. Timeline of COVID-19 in Pakistan
The number of COVID-19 cases keep on rising even after lock down, so, it
led to more misconceptions among the people. So, in that current
scenario, a leniency in lock down was operated. As a result, total
number of COVID-19 cases in Pakistan raised to 4,601 on
10th April, 2020 (Conducted & Cases, 2020). This
graph kept on rising from 8,418 cases on 20th April,
2020 to 14,885 cases on 29th April, 2020 (Conducted &
Cases, 2020). On 4th May, 2020 situation got worst and
COVID-19 patients increased to 20,186, as people did not bother to
maintain any precautionary measures due to their misconceptions about
COVID-19 (Report, 2020).
On 20th May, 2020,
Sindh became most affected province with 17,947 cases and total COVID-19
cases were 45,898 (Plan, 2020). Then the Coronavirus made its biggest
hit in Pakistan with total of 69,496 cases on 31stMay, 2020 with a death rate of 2.1% and this situation is getting worst
day by day (Report, 2020). On 9th June, 2020 the
nationwide tally of COVID-19 patients stood at 108,317 cases and
Pakistan became the 14th country to cross 100k
COVID-19 cases with death toll troops of 2000 (“JUNE 7: Pakistan
Becomes 14th Country to Cross 100k Covid-19 Cases; Death Toll Tops 2,000
| The Express Tribune,” 2020). If this graph keeps on rising,
soon Pakistan will leave all the countries behind in COVID-19 race and
it could not afford another lock down to control spread of virus due to
its disastrous effects on economy. So, spreading awareness is the only
strategy that can work if people take it seriously otherwise, all the
people should be ready to face a situation worse than any nightmare
(Acter et al., 2020).
The delicate health system of Pakistan has braced for the recent
imminent COVID-19 peak for the last couple of weeks. Number of cases
already surpassed China and many other countries resulting Pakistan at
13th place worldwide for this pandemic. Hospitals of
two largest cities of Pakistan, Karachi and Lahore respectively, have
already reached their limits. In Karachi, 136 ventilators in 15
government, private and charitable hospitals are dealing with
coronavirus patients for the population of 15 million people describe
its pitiable situation clearly. Similarly, 539 beds and just 200
ventilators are available in whole Lahore to tackle 11.13 million
people. In addition, about 2,200 doctors self-isolated themselves after
being tested positive for Coronavirus (“Pakistan’s Health System Braces
for Covid-19 Peak | The Express Tribune,” 2020)
Dr. Ayub Jadoon, a microbiologist from
Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, claimed that the
current viral attack may be the second exposure for the people of
Pakistan. He illustrated due to the low mortality rate and explained
that it is quite possible that people of Pakistan are already, more or
less, immune to SARS-CoV-2 because it might be the second exposure of
Coronavirus in Pakistan and the antibodies or memory B cells that were
produced during the first exposure are already present in an individual
and this help in defending the body against the recent virus, even if
this is another strain of the virus (“Pakistan’s Low Coronavirus
Fatalities May Be Due to ‘Second Exposure’ | The Express
Tribune”)
A tabular data about the number of
COVID-19 cases, deaths due to COVID-19 and the recoveries from this
disease is summarized in tables 1, 2 and 3 respectively.