Increasing Infection Rates.

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) may have been closed down, and pandemic restrictions and SOPs may have been severely toned down, but this does not mean we have seen the end of the virus. As we have learnt from the many waves of the pandemic, the virus comes like a rollercoaster, mutating into various strands. Despite a few months of stability and life seemingly coming back to normal, Covid-19 cases are resurging across Pakistan, with the positivity rate in Karachi reaching alarming levels at 21.23 per cent on Thursday.

This is concerning news. The subsiding of the pandemic did not give the country's economy time to breathe as it coincided with political turmoil in the country and the Russia-Ukraine war, plunging a lot of the world's economy into crisis. With the dire economic situation we face today, with the rampant inflation, reverting to strict restrictions may not be something Pakistan could afford at this time, and in all likelihood, not something the one-year...