The UN Human Rights High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, has called for caution as more countries move to lift COVID-19 lockdowns imposed
UN Human Rights High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet
The governor of Nigeria’s most affected state, Lagos, has warned he could reimpose a lockdown on the country’s most populous state as residents serially violate safety measures put in place to check the spread of the virus. According to her, balancing the economic imperatives with the health and human rights demands of the COVID-19 response will be one of the most “defining experiences for all leaders and all governments”.
“If the re-opening of societies is mishandled, all the huge sacrifices made during the initial lockdown will have been for nothing.
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