WHO urges countries to ‘wake up’ and halt virus
Children of the Ye'kuana and Yanomami ethnic groups receive medical attention and undergo a rapid swab test for Covid-19, in Auaris, Brazil, on June 30, 2020. The Americas are the region hardest-hit by the contagion, with most cases and deaths registered in the United States, and with numbers skyrocketing in a several countries in Latin America. – EPA pic, July 4, 2020.
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 lying,” WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told journalists at a briefing hosted by the UN correspondents’ association in Geneva.
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