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Published 11 May, 2020 03:47pm

Pakistan's coronavirus outbreak has yet to peak: FM Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan's coronavirus outbreak has yet to peak and the real challenge has yet to present itself.

Addressing the National Assembly session, he said: "Our death and infection rate is 2.17 per cent. Across the world this percentage is 6.8pc. So we have been largely spared from the larger consequences of this pandemic."

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