Barriers in Lock Down
The only and most effective strategy is lock down, but, more than all over the world, people of subcontinent especially Pakistan is facing a lot of problems in making its people understand about the severity of the disease. First issue is with the unawareness or illiteracy of the people. People do not even bother to make sure the safety measures. The lock down partially lifted by the Government in order to pursue the economy of Pakistan before Eid resulted in an enormous and rapid increase in the graph of daily cases of COVID-19 in Pakistan (Organization & organization, 2020). Obviously, all of this happened due to unawareness and non-serious behavior of people against this pandemic.
Second major problem is the myths wandering in the public about novel coronavirus. People specially living in villages are not ready to accept the reality about virus. They do not believe until they see many patients by their own eyes. Rumors revolve that the virus is being spread by the will of World’s Superpowers or it’s a source to uplift the economy of the developed countries by selling their vaccines, etc. Another problem faced by the Government of Pakistan is the firm belief of its people in religion. However, more than 95% population in Pakistan is Muslim (Organization & organization, 2020), Islam never preached about not having safety measures, in fact, Islam preached the ways to tackle the pandemics. Some people in Pakistan who are not well literate about the preaching of Islam, mis concept the belief and hence face horrifying situation.