Pakistan is testing fewer than 3 people out of every 1,000 for Covid-19.

Can the country with an estimated 220M people afford the battle against one of the biggest pandemics in the last 100 years? A thread 👇

One-third of Pakistan’s $320B gross domestic product comes from people working in informal jobs.

Can the country afford to close its economy to protect the very same people from Covid-19?

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Religious group Tablighi Jamaat’s mass gathering in March is said to have ignited a cluster of Covid-19 cases, with more than 3,000 attendees infected and many more untested.

Did this event worsen Pakistan’s outbreak?

PM Imran Khan’s PTI party is urging provinces to further ease lockdown restrictions as Pakistan averages 1,910 new Covid-19 cases daily in the last 10 days.

Key dates in Pakistan’s Covid-19 outbreak

Less than 3% of Pakistan’s GDP is spent on health, roughly one-third of the global average.

Are hospitals prepared for Covid-19?