ISLAMABAD: In a demonstration on Sunday the protesters alleged President of the United States, Donald Trump for devastation occurred by the spread of Covid-19.

A large number of the civil society representatives and human rights activists gathered outside the National Press Club. They were holding placards and banners inscribing slogans against the US President.

As a world Super power country's President, the protestors added, the Trump should help out the world instead, they alleged, he thoroughly done otherwise, adding that on this difficult time when the entire world needed US's guidance and help, its President remained busy in making unnecessary and baseless allegations against China and World Health Organization (WHO).

The protesters demanded that the US is the largest donor to health care, so it was the US' job to control the virus promptly through the WHO.

They recalled that China did its best to contain the virus with a lockdown in Wuhan, adding that it fulfilled its responsibility by informing WHO about the pandemic and its consequences.

The rights defenders said that when the virus reached Pakistan, the incumbent government failed to control it.

They maintained that around 400,000 people have died of Covid-19 out of around 5 million infections worldwide since its emergence, and governments are scrambling to contain the virus while seeking ways to resuscitate their economies.

Trump, they added, tried to use China as an issue to shirk responsibility that very regretted. The economic damage caused by the virus has led to unprecedented emergency stimulus measures by governments and central banks, and the latest came from Europe where France and Germany proposed a fund worth 500 billion euros.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020