Pakistan is among the few less developed countries which have done reasonably well in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has been through three waves of the pandemic since May 2020 and now facing the 4th one. The government’s policy of imposing smart lockdowns and early vaccine drives, thanks to the help from China, has helped in keeping the daily cases and death toll low compared to our neighbouring countries.[1]
One thing that the pandemic has highlighted is the yawning gap between the haves and have nots. The less developed countries have been more severely impacted by the devastation of their local infrastructures, be it in the fields of health, finance, or governance and which faltered under the pressures of dealing with COVID-19.[2] But the developed world has been slow in helping the less fortunate around the world and as the UN and WHO have said many times without the world coming together and working together it would be hard to overcome the pandemic and return to pre-COVID-19 normality.[3] Prime Minister Imran Khan, has highlighted the need for convergence of the globe in helping each other in coming out of this pandemic.
