Boys wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, look out the window of a train at a railway station, in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, January 6, 2020. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Unmasked daily wage workers wait to be hired by customers in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, June 12, 2020. Pakistan ranks among countries hardest hit by the coronavirus with infections soaring beyond 18,000, while the government, which has opened up the country hoping to salvage a near collapsed economy, warns a stunning 1.2 million Pakistanis could be infected by the end of August. (Photo by B.K. Bangash/AP Photo)





A worker wearing a face mask and a protective suit prepares coffins that are later distributed to hospitals to transport people who have died with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the pandemic COVID-19 disease in Islamabad, Pakistan, 07 June 2020. (Photo by Sohail Shahzad/EPA/EFE)





A railway worker checks the body temperature of a woman wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, on her arrival at a railway station to board on a train, in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, June 6, 2020. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Soldiers stand alert outside a restricted area that is sealed off to control the spread of the coronavirus, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, June 19, 2020. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A passenger wearing a protective face mask is seen from the window of a bus, after the provincial government started easing the lockdown restrictions and allowed to resume city public transport in Sindh, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan on June 3, 2020. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





Pakistan rescue workers and volunteers look for survivors amid the rubble of a 5-floor building collapse in Karachi on June 08, 2020. At least two people were killed while eight others were injured after a multi-storey residential building in Lyari's Liaquat Colony collapsed 30 more feared trapped under debris. (Photo by Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Locusts swarm a residential area of Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, June 12, 2020. Pakistani officials say an outbreak of desert locusts is spreading across the country posing a threat to food security. (Photo by Arshad Butt/AP Photo)





Ducks are seen in a deserted residential area after the area was sealed by the authorities in Lahore on June 17, 2020 as the COVID-19 coronavirus cases continue to rise. Pakistan, which has recorded 150,000 cases and about 3,000 deaths, Prime Minister Imran Khan resisted a nationwide lockdown, saying the country could ill afford it. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A boy holds an x-ray sheet as he observes the partial solar eclipse along Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan June 21, 2020. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





People exercise in a park in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, June 5, 2020. Government of Pakistan's Punjab province has reopened parks in different cities of the province including Lahore amid coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Workers move oxygen tanks in a factory amid shortage of oxygen cylinders in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan province, Pakistan, 14 June 2020. Oxygen cylinders in various Pakistani cities have become scarce amidst the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Jamal Taraqai/EPA/EFE)





Pakistan paramilitary soldiers and a police officers stand guard at a checkpoint of a restricted area to help to contain the spread of new coronavirus, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, June 13, 2020. Capital administration sealed few areas of Islamabad following the decision taken on the advice of the Health Department and epidemiologists after hundreds of cases were reported from these areas. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)





Rescue worker spray disinfectant in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus ahead of the Presentation of Annual Budget for the Financial Year 2020-21. (Photo by Hussain Ali/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





4-year-old Tasmina adjusts her protective face mask as she waits with her family for a train at a railway station, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan on June 9, 2020. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A policeman stands guard in a blocked street which was sealed by the authorities in Karachi on June 20, 2020, after the COVID-19 coronavirus cases continue to rise. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)





A man sells protective face masks on a deserted market during partial lockdown in Lahore, Pakistan, 13 June 2020. Countries around the world are taking increased measures to stem the widespread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. (Photo by Rahat Dar/EPA/EFE)





Pakistani farmer sorts wheat grains after they have been threshed during the harvest season at a village on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, 15 June 2020. Wheat is the most widely grown crop in the world. In Pakistan, wheat being the staple diet is the most important crop and cultivated on the largest acreages, in almost every part of the country. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





Labourers cut tree logs at a timber market in Lahore on June 4, 2020, ahead of the United Nations' World Environment Day marked annually on June 5. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





In this May 6, 2020 photo, a man begs at a roadside during a lockdown to help to contain a spread of coronavirus in Peshawar, Pakistan. For millions of people who live in poor and troubled regions of the world, the novel coronavirus is only the latest epidemic. They already face a plethora of fatal and crippling infectious diseases: polio, Ebola, cholera, dengue, tuberculosis and malaria, to name a few. The diseases are made worse by chronic poverty that leads to malnutrition and violence that disrupts vaccination campaigns. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)