WHO -Countries Taking Wrong Direction Against CoronaVirus
How To Contain a virus when it has already spread globally especially to countries with poor Health care?
GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization warned on Monday that many countries were slowed their response to the coronavirus, there could be no return to normality any time soon.
WHO UN Health Agency said the “Pandemic was only going to get worse unless people stuck to the basics of physical distancing, handwashing, wearing masks and staying home if sick.”
WHO UN Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghe Breyesus warned that some countries easing their way out of lockdowns were now witnessing a resurgence of the virus because they were not following proven methods to reduce risks.
Tedros Adhanom Ghe Breyesus said “I want to be straight with you: there will be no return to the ‘old normal’ for the foreseeable future Let me blunt. Too many countries are headed in the wrong direction. The virus remains public enemy number one, but the actions of many governments and people do not reflect this. If governments do not roll out a comprehensive strategy to suppress transmission of the virus, and if the public do not follow the basics, “there is only one way this pandemic is going to go It’s going to get worse and worse and worse.”
‘Explosive transmission’
The Coronavirus has killed nearly 600,000 people and infected more than 13 million since the outbreak emerged in Wuhan in China last December.
Tedros Adhanom Ghe Breyesus said four scenarios were now playing out around the world.They were: Countries that were alert and avoided large outbreaks, those that got a major outbreak under control, those that eased restrictions but are now backsliding, and those in an intense transmission phase.
Tedros Adhanom Ghe Breyesus said “The heart of the crisis remains the Americas accounting for more than half of infections but stressed it was never too late to bring “explosive transmission” under control.
In a study released on Monday the first of its kind a team led by researchers from King’s College London said patients who recover from coronavirus infections might lose immunity to reinfection within months.
WHO Emergencies Director Michael Ryan said it was not yet known whether recovered CORONA VIRUS patients could be infected again, but “with other coronaviruses, that is the case”.
UN-WHO COVID-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove “said more studies were needed.” While those infected did mount some level of immune response through antibodies, “what we don’t know is how strong that protection is, and for how long that protection will last”, she said.
The WHO has sent a two-person mission to China, the groundwork for a study into the animal origins of the new coronavirus. The epidemiologist and animal health expert from UN-WHO have gone into quarantine after arriving at Bejing,China as per Chinese regulations.
UN-WHO said it was assumed the virus came from a bat, but the intermediate animal host that transmitted it between bats and humans was not yet established.
In China, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a press briefing that experts from China and the WHO would “enter into scientific cooperation on tracing the origins of the novel coronavirus”.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying “The WHO also believes that finding the origin is a constantly developing process that could involve multiple countries and regions,”
UN-WHO said we should start at where the first clusters of human cases were detected in Wuhan, China. You need to go to the epicenter and work from there.”