In its fight to win the COVID War, Pakistan announced that from 5 May to 20 May, it will cut international flights into and out of its airports by 80 percent.
The restrictions will come into effect as Istanbul considers implementing a nationwide lockdown due to an increase in COVID-19 cases.
The BBC reported that Pakistan was reporting 16,000 cases in the first week of March, and now that number has swelled to 140,000 in April. Prime Minister Imran Khan said the country could be headed for disaster because there are fewer than one doctor of 963 people, the report said, there are over 5,200 patients in the intensive care units
“Right now, the national positivity rate is 11 percent,” Fawad Chaudhry, the minister for information, said, according to the paper. “If it goes up to 14 or 15 percent, we will have no choice but to move toward a lockdown.
The country has already deployed troops within major cities to make sure people are obeying mask mandates and other guidelines. The paper said travel between cities will be banned from 8 May to 16 May. Those dates impact the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.
TRENDPOST: Unreported in media coverage of Pakistan’s impending lockdown is the fact that among its population of 224,453,453, since last March, 18,070 people died of the virus… or the grand total of 0.00805 percent over the course of 14 months, which is only 0.00057 percent per month.
Also absent in the mainstream media is that while the government imposes COVID restrictions, according to The Lancet, air pollution kills some 135,000 people, most of them children, each year. (See article here.)
