Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Tuesday called for a return to strict coronavirus measures, including masks, mass vaccination programs and social distancing, as the pandemic is “far away”.
Tedros stressed that the pandemic continues, even though many governments are doing everything but coronavirus restrictions due to the reduction of the threat. No one believes now is the time to return to the freedoms of the past.
Speaking to the media from the WHO lake center in Geneva, the 57-year-old former Ethiopian Minister of Health and Foreign Affairs warned governments rather than “implement proven measures such as wearing masks, improved ventilation and testing and treatment protocols”. , Switzerland.
“I’m concerned that the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise and puts an additional strain on overburdened health systems and healthcare workers,” Tedros said. “I’m also worried about the rising death toll.”
As the left has suppressed for the past two years, Americans have finally unmasked, according to a poll by The Economist/YouGov. https://t.co/DmEU0xiElV
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If the rise in cases is affecting the treatment backlog in hospitals, the specter of some restrictions has already emerged in the UK.
The newly elected professional bureaucrat continued: “New waves of the virus show once again that COVID-19 is far from over.
“As the virus weighs on us, we must fight. We are in a better position than at the beginning of the epidemic.
“Of course there is progress. We have safe and effective means of preventing infections, hospitalizations and deaths. But we must not delay them,” he said.
He urged governments to regularly review and adjust their COVID-19 response plans as the situation changes.
UPDATE: A petition calling for the resignation of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, received nearly a million signatures. https://t.co/INFaBju21O
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The WHO Coronavirus Emergency Committee met via videoconference last Friday and determined that the pandemic remains an international public health emergency, the highest alarm a global organization can raise.
WHO emergency director Michael Ryan said at the meeting that the number of Covid cases reported to WHO has increased by 30 percent over the past two weeks, mainly due to Omicron BA sub-options 4 and BA.
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