.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave a robust defence of his and the WHO’s ‘timely’ actions in declaring the new coronavirus an international emergency at the end of January
GENEVA/LONDON - Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
“It’s really important that as countries ease those measures that they are constantly on the look out for a jump in infections and in particular are dealing with transmission in special settings,” Ryan told a news conference. “So we are very anxious that we can move to a situation where the disease can kept under control with less severe measures,” he said.
Regarding the new coronavirus that first emerged late last year in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, he reiterated that scientists examining its genetic sequences have assured the WHO that “this virus is natural in origin”. FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus , in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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