Coronavirus May Never Go Away, Warns WHO, Slams ‘Magical’ Thinking That Lockdowns Work Perfectly
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The arena has a ‘lengthy, lengthy strategy to pass’ to deliver the coronavirus pandemic below regulate, regardless of tentative steps in many nations to start out restarting customary existence, WHO’s most sensible emergencies knowledgeable warned.
- Reuters Geneva
- Ultimate Up to date: Would possibly 14, 2020, 7:14 AM IST
Mike Ryan, the pinnacle of the International Well being Group emergencies program, on Wednesday advised journalists that the novel coronavirus might transform “every other endemic virus in our communities. And this virus might by no means pass away.”
The arena has a “lengthy, lengthy strategy to pass” to deliver the coronavirus pandemic below regulate, regardless of tentative steps in many nations to start out restarting customary existence, the International Well being Group’s most sensible emergencies knowledgeable warned on Wednesday.
Dr Mike Ryan stated dangers from COVID-19, the respiration sickness led to by way of the novel coronavirus, remained prime at “nationwide, regional and world ranges.”
He stated that “very important regulate” of the virus used to be required as a way to decrease the present chance evaluation.
Governments world wide are suffering with the query of the way to reopen their economies whilst nonetheless containing the virus, which has inflamed four.29 million other folks, consistent with a Reuters tally, and resulted in over 290,000 deaths.
“There’s some magical considering occurring that lockdowns paintings completely and that unlocking lockdowns will pass nice. Each are fraught with risks,” Ryan warned.
