GENEVA, April 26 — The World Health Organisation warned yesterday that recovery from coronavirus might not protect a person from reinfection as the global death toll from the pandemic surpassed 200,000. Hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world spent the second day of the Ramadan holy...
Marcio Rodrigues Alves, 41, next to the gate of his house where he wrote a message as a tribute to and protest against his mother’s death of Covid-19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 23, 2020. — Reuters pic
Even as governments from Sri Lanka to Belgium to the United States began moving in the direction of partial reopening, the Covid-19 pandemic still had nearly half of humanity under some form of lockdown or confinement. The warning came as some governments study measures such as “immunity passports” for those who have recovered as one way to get people back to work after weeks of economic shutdown.
“If I've already had corona then I'm not infectious,” said Berlin resident Lothar Kopp, hoping to test positive for antibodies as it could allow him to visit his elderly mother. In the United States, the White House's top pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci said this week that the US will certainly have a coronavirus problem in the fall, which could be complicated by the return of the seasonal flu toward year-end.Even so, the pressure from broken economies and citizens frustrated by stay-at-home orders had areas pushing to open up.
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