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The World Health Organization’s chief warned Tuesday that it was too early for countries to either declare victory over Covid-19 or give up attempts to halt transmission.
“It is premature for any country to either surrender or to declare victory,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, cautioning that “this virus is dangerous, and it continues to evolve before our very eyes.”
Many countries have not reached their peak in cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus and measures to curb its spread should be eased slowly, the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, said on Tuesday.
“We’re concerned that a narrative has taken hold in some countries that because of ????, and because of Omicron’s high transmissibility and lower severity, preventing transmission is no longer possible, and no longer necessary. Nothing could be further from the truth”-@DrTedros
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) February 1, 2022
Mike Ryan, the director of WHO’s health emergencies programme, urged countries to chart their own path out of the pandemic and not blindly follow others in relaxing measures. “If you open doors quickly you better be able to close them pretty quickly as well,” he said. Ryan said he feared political pressure may lead some countries to open up prematurely, leading to unnecessary viral transmission and deaths.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, REUTERS)
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