MANILA: Millions of people in the Philippines were ordered to stay home Tuesday as global coronavirus infections kept soaring, with the World Health O...
Armed police stop a motorist at a checkpoint as they conduct identity checks during a new round of lockdown measures for the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, along a road in Manila on August 4, 2020. — AFPMillions of people in the Philippines were ordered to stay home Tuesday as global coronavirus infections kept soaring, with the World Health Organization warning against relying on a vaccine “silver bullet” to end the pandemic.
South America’s largest country has recorded 2.75 million cases, and close to half the region’s more than 202,000 deaths.Desperate to contain the spread and relieve pressure on overwhelmed hospitals, some countries such as the Philippines have resorted to reimposing economically painful restrictions on travel and businesses.
With only 24 hours’ notice of the shutdown, many found themselves stranded in Manila and unable to get back to their hometowns after public transport and domestic flights were halted. But Vitaly Zverev, laboratory chief at the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera, said it was “impossible to ensure a vaccine’s safety in the time that has passed since the beginning of this pandemic”.The WHO warned that governments and citizens should focus on what is known to work: testing, contact tracing, maintaining physical distance and wearing a mask.
As the number of fatalities in the United States surpassed 155,000, President Donald Trump lashed out at his coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx after she warned the virus was “extraordinarily widespread” in the country where more than 4.6 million infections have been recorded.
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