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Pakistan considering complete lockdown due to high covid positivity rate

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Islamabad [Pakistan]: Amid the sudden rise in coronavirus cases in Pakistan, the federal government has warned they will be forced to impose a complete lockdown in the country if the current positivity rate of COVID-19 cases continues in the coming week.Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Pakistan's Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that there would be serious consequences for the health care system of the country if the present 11 per cent ratio of detection of coronavirus cases persisted just for one or one-and-half-week more, Gulf News reported."Our government has been doing its best since last one year to avoid the situation of complete lockdown in the country as such a decision creates serious.

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