Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the coronavirus has shed light on some things for us.

"We have a dependency syndrome; we don't have that self-belief, we didn't progress towards a knowledge-based economy because we didn't spend on education and research.

"Pakistanis excel once they immigrate; why can't you create that system here?" the prime minister asked.

"It is only now — with a global shortage — that we have found out that building ventilators isn't that hard. The country that had the capacity to make nuclear bombs, how hard can it be for it to make ventilators?" he pointed out.