Senate Minority Leader Schumer says the $2 trillion stimulus bill is like 'unemployment insurance on steroids'
From CNN’s Sophia Saifi in Islamabad
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been consistently rejecting calls for a nationwide lockdown claiming that an all-out closure of businesses would affect the “25% of the population that lives below the poverty line,” the country's daily wage earners who Khan said would lose their incomes in a heartbeat.
All major phone networks have changed their call tunes to messages asking people to wash their hands and the state TV has messages in regional languages explaining the importance of social distancing. Daily wage workers, unemployed due to the coronavirus outbreak, jostle for free food supplies being distributed in Quetta, Pakistan, on Tuesday. Arshad Butt/AP
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