Hundreds of Pakistanis who were repatriated from the Middle East — where many lost jobs amid coronavirus shutdowns and were living in cramped conditions — have tested positive for the virus, officials said.
Pakistan has so far brought about 20,000 nationals home, among them a large number of unskilled workers who had been labouring in Gulf nations only to see their jobs disappear as lockdowns slowed economic activity. Of the 2,069 Pakistanis returning from the Middle East to the southern province of Sindh, more than 500 tested positive for the coronavirus, Murad Ali Shah, Sindh's chief minister, told a press conference.
And in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a senior government official said that more than 200 of the 1,600 passengers repatriated to the city of Peshawar had tested positive. According to the foreign office, about 4.5 million Pakistanis work in the Middle East.
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