How to implement pausing of WaitForSeconds based coroutine?

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Greetings,

I am looking for a pausing solution.
The issue is that my game has a double score power-up for 10 seconds:
private bool isDoubleScoreActive;
private int runningDoubleScoreCoroutinesCount;

EventManager.TriggerEvent("DoubleScore"); // triggers the event

private void OnDoubleScore(object sender, object parameters)
    {
        StartCoroutine(DoubleScore()); // starts the coroutine
    }

    private IEnumerator DoubleScore()
    {
        if (!isDoubleScoreActive)
        {
            doubleScoreIndicator.SetActive(true);
            isDoubleScoreActive = true; // any score added gets doubled
        }
        runningDoubleScoreCoroutinesCount += 1; // used to track if we have active coroutines so we can extend the length of the power-up
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(10); // the power-up lasts for 10 sec
        runningDoubleScoreCoroutinesCount -= 1; // the coroutine is done
        if (runningDoubleScoreCoroutinesCount == 0) // if this is the only coroutine, the power-up has ended
        {
            doubleScoreIndicator.SetActive(false);
            isDoubleScoreActive = false;
        }
    }

And this kind of pattern makes it impossible to pause the game, anyone has any idea how to solve this?
The only idea I have is to make a function update time each frame and stop changing time when paused is set to true. Are there any better solutions?

Thanks for your time

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WaitForSeconds is using scaled time, so when you set your timescale to 0 your corutine will not be executed in pause. Or you want to run this corurine even when in pause mode? In that case use lWaitForSecondsRealtime which is independet from timescale.