Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned that Pakistan's deaths from the coronavirus will increase in the coming days. "In the world you will see that the [graph] first goes up and then goes down. Right now we are going up.

"This is a difficult time. Nations that will come together and battle this, it will not be that hard a time for them," he said, adding that people needed to be made aware about the pandemic. "People need to know that it will spread if they don't follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) and that will increase burden on hospitals.

"People need to understand that if we don't follow SOPs and don't take precautions, it will affect hospitals. We will place the lives of people who can be saved, the elderly in danger [by not following SOPs]," he added.