The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief says “we need to put up a fight now” throughout a peak within the present wave of the coronavirus pandemic – fairly than focusing on when a second wave would possibly come.
Dr Michael Ryan mentioned the world shall be significantly better at preventing a second wave, if individuals can be taught the teachings of preventing the first wave.
WHO officers emphasised mask-wearing, social distancing, and hygiene by people, together with contact-tracing and monitoring of circumstances by well being authorities as key methods to battle the virus.
They say governments and people ought to contour their insurance policies and behavior based mostly on the outbreak’s standing of their international locations.
Ryan mentioned the world was experiencing a “second peak in the first wave” – a scenario during which the virus hasn’t been suppressed sufficient to quell transmission to finish the first one.
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