As Pakistan ends its Covid-19 lockdown, experts worry a surge in cases will devastate the country's underfunded healthcare system
Health workers wearing protective gear move a body of a man who died from the coronavirus, outside an isolation ward at the Ayub Teaching Hospital in Abbottabad, Pakistan. April 16, 2020
How the mostly Muslim nation of 207 million people behaves when the fasting month of Ramadan ends and festivities for Eid begins, which is expected on Sunday or Monday, could influence the course of the contagion.Usually, Eid draws big crowds to malls and shops, and people travel in droves to reach their hometowns.
In the first 20 days of May, over 630 people have died, compared to around 380 in the entire month of April, data tabulated by Reuters shows. There were less than 10 deaths in March.The 32 deaths reported on Wednesday took the total death toll to 1,017, a government website showed, making Pakistan the 25th country worldwide where the toll has crossed a thousand. On Tuesday, Pakistan reported the most deaths for a single day at 46.
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