The World Health Organization on Monday said that India had tremendous capacity and had, in the past, helped the world in eliminating small...
The World Health Organization on Monday said that India had tremendous capacity and had, in the past, helped the world in eliminating smallpox and polio. Michael Ryan, the executive director of WHO Health Emergencies Programme, urged India to be aggressive in its efforts to combat the virus.
“India, like China, is hugely populated and future of Covid-19 to a greater extent will be determined by what happens in densely populated large countries,” Ryan said during a media briefing. “It is really important that India continues to take aggressive action at the public health level.”
The international body’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned countries on Monday saying that the novel coronavirus was clearly “accelerating”, and added that it was still possible to “change the trajectory” of the outbreak. “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 1,00,000 cases, 11 days for the second 1,00,000 cases and just four days for the third 1,00,000 cases,” he added.
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“Numbers matter, because they’re not just numbers,” Ghebreyesus said. “They’re people, whose lives and families have been turned upside down. To win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics – testing every suspected case,...
