This morning, it was reported that nearly 20,000 people in Pakistan were quarantined after participating in a religious rally called for by a fundamentalist Islamic movement in Lahore, despite the outbreak of the novel Corona virus.
According to the Pakistani authorities, the search for tens of thousands of others who were in the gathering is undergoing.
As part of efforts to counter the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the authorities prevented this gathering of the "Tabligh Group", but the organizers went ahead and made the event, in which they said more than 100,000 people from 70 countries participated from 10 to 12 March in the vicinity of Lahore, the capital of the state of Punjab, eastern Pakistan.
Since then, those participants whom the authorities want to undergo Covid-19 examinations have distributed inside and outside Pakistan.
At least 45 people have died due to the epidemic in Pakistan, which has a population of 200 million, and its health system is deteriorated.
Another similar gathering last March in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, also caused hundreds of cases of infection in about 12 countries, including the country itself.
Mean while, it was noted that with the increasing spread of the pandemic, the Pakistani government has taken a series of measures. Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed his conviction that the country would finally defeat the novel coronavirus.
China and Pakistan have a tradition of helping each other in times of crisis. Accordingly, an anti-pandemic medical expert group dispatched by the Chinese government to Pakistan, providing consultation for Pakistan’s pandemic prevention and control, patient treatment and laboratory work, as well as training and guidance for Pakistani medical staff and community prevention and control personnel.
China has provided four batches of medical aid to Pakistan, including 2 million sets of PPE and 200 ventilators, and is also helping Pakistan build a temporary isolation hospital.
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