GENEVA, July 4 — The World Health Organisation yesterday urged countries hit by serious coronavirus outbreaks to “wake up” to the realities on the ground instead of bickering, and to “take control”. “People need to wake up. The data is not lying. The situation on the ground is not...
Emergency Rescue Service nurses attend to a patient who is experiencing breathing difficulty and others symptoms of the coronavirus disease amid the outbreak, in Sao Paulo July 2, 2020. — Reuters pic
Touching almost every country on Earth since it emerged in China late last year, the coronavirus has hit at least 10.8 million people and killed 521,000 worldwide. “There are good economic reasons that the countries need to bring their economies back online,” he said. It could be possible to loosen restrictions in areas with lower transmission rates and still contain the outbreak through things like physical distancing, hand-washing, testing, isolating cases and contact tracing.
“It is looking at: can you control transmission by any other means other than transmission? If you can’t, you may not have an alternative” to lockdown.
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