The COVID-19 and its Impacts on Progressive Sectors of Pakistan
The COVID-19 and its Impacts on Progressive Sectors of Pakistan
Nazish Huma Khan1*, Muhammad Sufyan Khan1, Tooba Saeed2, Mohammad Ilyas3 and Hazrat Husaain4
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the entire world. It originated in China and is now spreading around the world. The COVID-19 outbreak has caused major disruption in people’s lives. Various steps are being taken by countries to prevent the spread of COVID-19 disease. This review article aims to investigate about each likely impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan. According to the results, agriculture loss in GDP from 2019-2020 is 0.22%, Pakistan’s exports decreased by 54.19%, while imports decreased by 34.49%, industries manufacturing reduced up to 40%. The poverty rate increased to 43%, annual growth in waste production is up to 2%, children’s pattern of daily screen use increased from 1.4% to 33.3% and physical activities decreased from 10.1% to 5.8% during the COVID-19 pandemic. Till now, 5 strong waves have affected millions of people in Pakistan. To control this disease, different national and international vaccines have been introduced and about 80% people have been vaccinated in the country till date. How much these vaccines are effective against COVID-19 disease is a question mark and is important to check its efficiency as it effects varies from person to person. Therefore, it is important to know the effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19. For this, both medical and conventional methods need to be adopted depending on the severity of viral attack. Moreover, vaccination is also referred to improve the immunity against this viral attack.
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December 2022
Vol. 41, Iss. 1, pp. 01-63
