section_path: Economic impact by continent, region and country/Asia/South Asia/Pakistan
section_name: Pakistan
paragraph_text: Pakistan
  
  The economy of Pakistan faced a devastating impact from the coronavirus outbreak because it was in recessionary conditions in the quarter prior to the pandemic. Weak social protections and low investment in healthcare meant that most citizens were vulnerable to pandemic conditions at the time of the outbreak. Forecasts of the economic loss from the three-month lockdown, which was subsequently eased in late May 2020, indicated that Pakistan would face its first annual economic recession since 1952. Given the strained government resources, civil society and charity organizations became much more active in providing relief to the public during the national lockdown.