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We have to live with the virus this year: Imran Khan

| @indiablooms | May 16, 2020, at 12:40 pm

Islamabad/IBNS: Defending his government's decision to ease the lockdown, Pakistan PM Imran Khan said people of the country need to learn the art of living with the COVID-19 virus this year.

"We have to live with the virus this year," Khan was quoted as saying by Geo News during his address on Friday.

During the press briefing, Khan informed the medical community that lifting of lockdown was imperative to provide jobs to 25 million informal labourers and workers, who had become jobless due to lockdown.

Pakistan has recorded 38512 COVID-19 cases so far.

There are 823 deaths recorded in the nation till now.
 

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