COVID-19 pandemic will get worse if basic precautions aren’t followed

– WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said most countries were headed to the wrong direction on the management of COVID-19

– Tedros said the pandemic would get worse “and worse and worse” if precautions were disregarded

– The health body’s emergencies head Mike Ryan asked nations not to reopen schools until the virus had been suppressed

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the coronavirus pandemic will get worse “and worse and worse” if countries continued to disregard containment measures.

The global health body’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said many nations across the world were headed to the wrong direction on managing the pandemic.

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WHO director general Tedros said many countries were headed in the wrong direction. Photo: WHO.
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Speaking in a virtual meeting on Monday, July 14, Tedros said out of the 230,000 cases recorded on Sunday, July 12, 10% were from 10 countries and 80% from two countries.

“If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go – it is going to get worse and worse and worse,” the director-general said.

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He said the virus was still a huge enemy in the world.

This came at a time when the world infections were 13,249,575 with more than half a million deaths.

Many nations in the world have been relaxing COVID-19 measures and reopening social places such as restaurants, schools and worship places.

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WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan echoed Tedros sentiments and warned against reopening of education institutions.

Ryan said schools could safely resume once the virus was defeated.

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WHO’s warning came days after revealing that there was emerging evidence which showed that coronavirus was airborne.

Evidence that coronavirus could be transmitted through the air was brought to the attention of WHO by a team of about 239 scientists from 32 countries who have been studying the virus.

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