Covid-19

Introduction

Current situation in Pakistan

Facilitation by government of Pakistan against COVID-19

Quarantine facilities province-wise for COVID-19 in Pakistan

On ground measures to deal with Pandemic

Covid 19 and Pakistan economy

Conclusion

Introduction
The outbreak of pandemic disease, covid-19 has sent unprecedented shock waves across the
world. It has unfolded the underlying vulnerabilities of the world community particularly those
who regard themselves as champions of democracy and liber values. It opens up new avenues
of research and we also hearing echoes of new world order. This new world order is going to be
more internationalize then before. No doubt it has impacts on every aspects of national and
international life. Indeed its impact from socio- economic towards politics and security concerns
of individual vary from country to country.

Current situation in Pakistan

According to the Ministry of Health, government of Pakistan, there are total of 3277 confirmed
positive cases in the country with 18 critical and 50 mortalities on Monday, April 6, 2020. The
highest cases appeared in the Punjab province (1493) followed by Sindh (881), Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (405), Balochistan (191), Gilgit baltistan (210), Federal (82) and Azad Jammu &
Kashmir have 15 confirmed cases. The results have heen shown in figure. To date, the highest
number of mortalities occurred in Khyber pakhtunkhwa with 16, followed by Punjab (15), Sindh
(15), Gilgit Baltistan (3), Balochistan (1). A total of 85 infected people have been recovered in
Sindh province, followed by KP (30), Balochitsan (17), and Punjab (25) GB (9) and AJK have one
recovery till date. The mortality rate in Pakistan is 1.3% and recovery rate is 4.8%

Facilitation by government of Pakistan against COVID-19

The Government of Pakistan is taking all the measures against the COVID-19 to provide and
insure the responsibilities of the state for their people. Since the first day when the first case
was conformed in Karachi city of Sindh all the services and measures were used with the
extreme capabilities to ensure the safeness of life in the region. Meanwhile, all the cases have a
travel history, suggesting transmission elsewhere being imported in the country. The
government of Pakistan provides the COVID-19 mitigation strategies with their measures. Such
as early case detection and Tracing and tracking of contacts, Risk communication, Social
Distancing, Quarantine and Isolation to avoid the spread of COVID-19

Quarantine facilities province-wise for COVID-19 in Pakistan

The Quarantines being used to restrict the activities or separation of persons (in a non-health
care facility) who were not ill yet, but who might have been exposed to an infectious agent or
disease such as COVID 19 with the objective of monitoring symptoms and early detection of
cases. The places use for Quarantine of COVID-19 people was widely disturbed in provinces.
The total number of Quarantine's 23,557 in 139 districts of the Pakistan which arise the good
gesture which being use in this scenario throughout Pakistan to control the outbreak of COVID-
19. In Islamabad the capital of the country, have allotted the two quarantine facilities. In the
Baluchistan, there were 10, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 52, Punjab 6, Sindh 2, while Gilgit-Baltistan
63. In AJK there were 4 quarantine facilities were being functional in the various districts

On ground measures to deal with Pandemic

At the Government’s request, UNDP established a COVID-19 Secretariat at Pakistan’s

Planning Commission to support the country’s economic and social response to the
pandemic. It also facilitated preparation of a socio-economic framework in collaboration
with other UN agencies. This framework will inform the Government’s 2020-2021 budget
and National Action Plan for COVID-19.

UNDP is also providing technical expertise to the Federal Ministry of Health to enhance
communications, coordination, and data analysis and to the National Disaster Management
Authority as it implements its Pakistan Preparedness and Response Plan COVID-19.

UNDP is meanwhile working closely with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Provincial Command and
Control Center to strengthen its crisis management capacity. This support includes the
design of a data collection system from districts, analysis and reporting to inform decision-
making by the Health Department, and provision of strategic communications to the
provincial authorities

Covid 19 and Pakistan economy

Islamabad—Spiking COVID-19 rates risk overwhelming Pakistan’s health system, slashing

growth, derailing recovery, and pushing the country’s most vulnerable further into poverty, a
new UN impact assessment, coordinated by UNDP, finds.

Pakistan’s confirmed and reported COVID-19 cases, as of 10 June, topped 113,000. More
than 2,200 people have died, including at least four provincial legislators. Pakistan is the fifth
most populous country in the world, with dense cities where contagion spreads far and fast.
This virus, alongside measures to mitigate it, poses major risks to lives and livelihoods with
impacts that could last for decades, the study says.

Public health systems were stretched long before the pandemic, with a ratio of one doctor to
963 people and one hospital bed to 1,608 people. Its shortage of trained medical staff is
estimated at 200,000 doctors and 1.4 million nurses, and universal health coverage is
nonexistent.
While the poverty rate declined by 40 percent over the last two decades to 24.3 percent in
2015, the IMF projects a sharp reversal, with up to 40 percent of Pakistanis living below the
poverty line in COVID-19’s viral wake.

Conclusion

As the data from the above discussion shows that, in coming months or year covid-19 crisis is
going to affect Pakistan in range of the sectors. Amongst these sectors the worst hit would
being the shape of overall accumulation of economy, health, individual life, and energy
sectors as well. The reason from almost 3 to 4 months the whole country is lockdown and
every sectors has stopped working.