{"id":15054,"date":"2020-06-09T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:30:14","slug":"pakistan-tops-100000-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15054","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan tops 100,000 COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI, Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan on Monday topped 100,000 coronavirus cases, becoming the 16th country to cross the six digit-mark, the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>With 4,728 new additions over the last 24 hours, Pakistan&#8217;s virus tally has reached 103,671, surpassing Saudi Arabia, and landing the country at the 15th spot in terms of COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p>The Kingdom is just behind Pakistan with 101,914 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another 62 patients lost their lives in the said period, bringing the virus-linked death toll to 2,067.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 32,581 patients have recovered.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official statistics, authorities have so far conducted 660,508 tests across the country with a population of around 200 million.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts attribute the increasing number of virus cases to the lifting of a prolonged lockdown late last month, warning that the country&#8217;s already weak health system could crash soon if the tally continues to surge at the current pace.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is the second worst-hit country in the South Asian region after India, the fifth worst-affected country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Imran Khan, however, has ruled out the possibility of another strict lockdown, saying the elitist idea would collapse the economy and increase poverty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only solution the world has discovered is smart lockdown which allows for economic activity with SOPs [standard operating procedure],&#8221; he tweeted on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan on Monday topped 100,000 coronavirus cases, becoming the 16th country to cross the six digit-mark, the Health Ministry said. With 4,728 new additions over the last 24 hours, Pakistan&#8217;s virus tally has reached 103,671, surpassing Saudi Arabia, and landing the country at the 15th spot in terms of COVID-19 infections. The Kingdom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}