Federal government announces economic relief package in favor of Corona virus

Federal government announces economic relief package in favor of Corona virus: photo Afp

The federal government announces an economic package to provide relief to the public and business community in the wake of the Corona virus.

In Islamabad, the economic team of the government chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan had a meeting in which the effects of the Corona virus and the economic package were discussed.

According to the statement, the Prime Minister approved the economic relief package in the wake of the Corona virus, which will provide Rs 3,000 monthly to 70 lakh daily occupants across the country.

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The meeting also approved a relief package of Rs 200 billion for exporters.

After the meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, it was said that the Prime Minister would also announce a relief package for the construction sector and a big relief on tax.

On this occasion, Prime Minister Imran Khan also ordered to keep a close watch on the situation and said that the poor and the downtrodden should be taken care of in the present situation.

He said that the daily people should not have problems.

The federal government's economic team also briefed the Prime Minister on the current economic situation in the country.

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According to the statement, Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed satisfaction over the presence of food and other necessities throughout the country.

Prime Minister Imran Khan rejected the proposal of lockdown in the country because of the Corona virus, saying that 25 people in our country are suffering from poverty and more problems will be faced with lockdown.

The Prime Minister said that the lockdown would have a bad effect on the economy of the country.

Addressing the nation, he said, 'I can do that but our problem is that 25% of Pakistanis are living below the poverty line and they will not have enough resources to spend the last two weeks with their wives and children.' Learn to PayPal.

'We do not have the capacity to deliver food to people at home,' he said.

Imran Khan said that if our situation were like Italy and China would have locked down all over the country but we could not do so.

He made it clear that the biggest problem with Corona is the poor, we have to deal with Corona as a nation and hopefully we will come out of it.