ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry Thursday said coronavirus outbreak has spread in Pakistan due to ignorance of the conservative religious class. Fawad Chaudhry said in a statement that the global outbreak of coronavirus has spread in Pakistan due to ignorance of the religious community and now they say coronavirus is a punishment from God and we need to repent, adding that the scholars who have the knowledge and the intellect are the blessings of Allah, but to give an ignorant status of a scholar is destruction. He said that 66 studies are going on in which 43 are on new vaccines, 16 on new antibiotics and seven are focusing on antibodies.
