Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi is speaking on the floor of the National Assembly. Planning Minister Asad Umar and Minister for Energy Omer Ayub are also in attendance.

"There is no doubt that this is an unprecedented challenge," said Mahmood, adding that "different experiments" are being held to curb the spread of Covid-19 until a vaccine is developed.

The foreign minister said that the government had honoured the opposition's request to summon a special NA session with a one-point agenda.