WHO Recommends ‘Extreme Vigilance’ As Countries Exit Lockdown
The World Health Organization on Monday hailed dwindling COVID-19 infection rates and deaths in some countries, but called on nations to show “extreme vigilance” as they begin loosening their restrictions.
WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan meanwhile hailed the gradual lifting of the lockdowns as a sign of “hope”.More than 280,000 people have died out of the more than four million known COVID-19 infections worldwide. But he warned that while “many countries have made very systematic investments in building up their public health capacities during the lockdowns, others have not.”“If disease persists in countries at a low level without the capacity to investigate clusters, identify clusters, there is always the risk that the disease will take off again,” he said.
“Early serological studies reflect that a relatively low percentage of the population has antibodies to COVID-19,” Tedros said, pointing out that this means “most of the population is still susceptible to the virus”. “There seems to be a consistent pattern so far that a low proportion of people have these antibodies,” she said.
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