Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health minister Taimur Khan Jhagra explained that coronavirus cases in cities are proportionate to populations and travels risks, and have nothing to do with healthcare.

"Data shows more people returning from abroad to KP than to any other province over last 2-3 months, it's the nature of our labour market," he explained in a series of tweets.

"What this implies is not necessarily a greater fatality rate. It is possible that rather than the fatality rate being different, the disproportionate death rates in different areas can actually help us to understand the true number of cases across Pakistan."

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