Twitterati School Kamran Khan As He Asks Government For Leniency In The Lockdown

Pakistan is struggling with the decision to impose complete lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak. While the lockdown appears to be the only solution to control the spread of the deadly virus, it brings other extreme challenges.

Kamran Khan, host of Dunya Kamran Khan Kay Sath, took to Twitter and asked the government to show some leniency.

Editor-in-Chief for the Dunya Media Group shared that only 0.002% of Pakistan’s total population of 22 million has been affected by coronavirus.

Sharing more statistics, the journalist wrote that 96% of those who had contracted the virus experienced mild symptoms and that only 91 people had been reported dead in Pakistan so far.

He asked the government to ponder these statistics and show leniency in the lockdown protocols.

جبری لاک ڈاؤن سے کروڑوں غیر تنخواہ دار مزدوروں پر روزگار کے دروازے بند رکھنے نہ رکھنے کا فیصلہ کرنے سے پہلے حکومت یاد رکھے 22 کروڑ پاکستانیوں میں صرف 0.002 فیصد گویا 5320 کورونا سے متاثر ہوئے96 فیصد تقریباً 4700 معمولی بیمار ہوئے 91 کا انتقال ہوا بسم اللہ پڑھیں نرمی کریں

— Kamran Khan (@AajKamranKhan) April 12, 2020

Twitterati were quick to school Kamran Khan on his relax-the-lockdown tweet.

It was pointed out that with only 60,000 tests conducted to date, Pakistan simply did not have enough data to predict how the COVID-19 trajectory would progress in the future.

With only 60,000 tests you can't have enough data to decide which way it's gonna swing.
Infection rate is still growing. About 50% of your active cases are local transmission.
And you are pursuing govt to open up economy. If you want to open remember 100s of thousand will Perish

— Hasaan Hashmi (@shanihashmi) April 12, 2020

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People also believed that with limited resources in hand, Pakistan certainly has to learn from the experience of European countries who could have saved thousands of lives had they taken the lockdown measures timely.

کامران خان صاحب،خدا کا خوف کریں پاکستان ابھی یورپ اور امریکہ سے پیچھے والے فیز میں ہے،اللہ کرے کہ پاکستان میں حالات مزید نہ بگڑیں۔آپ کی یہ ٹویٹ زمینی حقائق سے لاعلمی کے اور ٹیسٹ میچ کا فیصلہ پہلی انگز پہ ہی سنانے کے مترادف ہے۔ برائے کرم بین الاقوامی پھیلاؤ کے پیٹرن کو فالو کریں

— Rashid Hashmi (@RashidHashmis) April 12, 2020

صرف پاکستان میں ہی نہیں امریکا جیسی سپر پاور بھی مخمصے کی شکار ٹرمپ بھی نرمی جبکہ ماہرین خبردار کررہے ہیں مصداق اس کہ ایک طرف کھائی ہے اور دوسری طرف گڑھا یہ کسی بھی ایسے انسان کیلئے نہایت کڑا امتحان ہے جس کے فیصلہ پر لاکھوں انسانوں کی زندگی کا انحصار ہو 🙏 #coronavirusinpakistan

— Sardar Riaz ul haq (PTI) (@sriazulhaq) April 12, 2020

There was consensus that social distancing was the only way forward to survive this pandemic.

اللہ تعالی پر بھروسہ کرنے کے ساتھ ساتھ یہ بھی خیال رہے کہ یہ man to man پھیلنے والا وائرس ہے اور سائنس اس پر settled ہے ۔۔۔ایک شخص اگر متاثر ہے اور وہ اس وائرس کے ساتھ سفر میں یعنی آزاد چل پھر رہا تو بے شمار لوگوں کو تن تنہا موت کی وادی میں دھکیل سکتا ہے ۔۔سو احتیاط سنت ہے

— 🖋𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒛𝒂𝒅𝒂🖋 (@Sardarzada_) April 13, 2020

Despite the fact that lockdown brings several other challenges with it, it remains the only solution to control the spread of the deadly virus. We’ve witnessed countries that initially didn’t take the situation seriously created a huge public health challenge for themselves.

The solution is to come up with a strategy that doesn’t leave the citizens vulnerable amid the lockdown.

SOPs should be designed and govt should go 4 a smart lockdown. #CoronaVirusPakistan

— Free Palastine (@AliHamzaTweets) April 12, 2020

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