Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the world community to share information on their strategies to deal with the coronavirus, saying that the "constant exchange of ideas will help soften the impact on labourers".

Prime Minister Imran Khan during his address. — DawnNewsTV
Prime Minister Imran Khan during his address. — DawnNewsTV

Addressing a virtual summit of the International Labour Organisation, the premier said that the entire world was praying for a vaccine but "uncertainty prevails" in the meantime and countries need to adopt a joint strategy for protecting labourers.

He pointed out that small and medium industries — which employ the most people — are the most vulnerable and a large number of them had filed for bankruptcy.

He added that the world community also needed to have a strategy to convince countries to be more sympathetic to the labourers who were working there and facing problems amid the pandemic.

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