WHO says countries need to use lockdown time to ‘attack coronavirus’

WHO says countries need to use lockdown time to ‘attack coronavirus’
March 25, 2020, 5:45 pm

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gives a press conference on the situation regarding coronavirus. (File photo AFP)

Countries that have locked down their populations to prevent the spread of the coronavirus need to use the time to find and attack the virus, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO says countries

“Asking people to stay at home and shutting down population movement is buying time, and reducing pressure on health systems. On their own these measures won’t extinguish epidemics,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. WHO says countries

“We call on all countries to use this time to attack the virus,” Tedros told a press conference. Countries need to expand, train and deploy their health care and public health workforces, as well as implementing systems to find every suspected case, and ramping up testing, he said. levant

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