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Review
. 2021 Jan 11:11:03013.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03013.

Pakistan and COVID-19: The mystery of the flattened curve

Shoaib Ahmad  1 , Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno 3rd  2   3 , Mohammad Yasir Essar  4 , Hiba Khan  5 , Attaullah Ahmadi  4   6
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Pakistan and COVID-19: The mystery of the flattened curve

Shoaib Ahmad et al. J Glob Health. .
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Competing interests: The authors have completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author) and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Photo: People busy in their routine and not adhering to preventive measures amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (from the author’s own collection, used with permission).
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Figure 1
Positivity rate of COVID-19 tests for Pakistan in comparison to India [10]. The data are rolling 7-day average (the number of confirmed cases divided by the number of tests, expressed as a percentage). Tests may refer to the number of tests performed or the number of people tested, depending on which is reported by the particular country. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus.
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