Bilawal stresses global cooperation to fight off coronavirus

Pakistan People s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday said the coronavirus pandemic could only be overcome through global cooperation, as he made it clear that the rich and resourceful countries would have to help the poor nations.

Bilawal has called on rich countries to help developing countries, saying that Pakistan too has been badly affected by the coronavirus. He said that if coronavirus cases keep increasing in Pakistan, its health system will not be able to cope with it.

Speaking to British television channel Sky News, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that after the outbreak of the coronavirus, the opposition offered to carry out joint efforts with the federal government but sadly, the federal government was slow to respond to the deadly virus.

During the interview, he said that Pakistan has been badly affected by the coronavirus and we have a much weaker health system as compared to Italy or Britain, who are under immense stress at the moment. If coronavirus cases in Pakistan keep increasing, our healthcare system will collapse, he added. "The health systems of even the likes of Italy and the UK had experienced a breakdown. Our health system is much weaker than that of Italy and the UK," he remarked.

The PPP chairman said that we can only avoid this epidemic through lockdown and social distancing as our health is not robust enough to cope with the outbreak.

Bilawal Bhutto said that poor countries do not have the resources to fight the virus on their own, developed countries will have to step forward and support developing and underdeveloped countries. "The world powers and the countries with resources would have to ensure an equitable distribution of testing kits and health services around the world," the PPP chairman stressed.