The World Health Organisation on Wednesday urged countries that have locked down their populations to prevent the spread of the coronavirus...
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday urged countries that have locked down their populations to prevent the spread of the coronavirus to find new cases and do everything they can to “suppress and stop” the transmission of Covid-19.
India began a 21-day lockdown on Wednesday, with the aim to break the chain of infection. The lockdown will be in effect till April 14. There are over 600 cases of coronavirus in the country. Of these, 10 people have died.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a lockdown on its own will not be enough to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic from the world. “Asking people to stay at home and shutting down population movement is buying time and reducing the pressure on health systems,” he said at a news conference in Geneva. “But on their own, these measures will not extinguish epidemics.”
He added: “The point of these actions is to enable the more precise and targeted measures that are needed to stop transmission and save lives. We call on all countries who have introduced so-called ‘lockdown’ measures to use this time to attack the coronavirus.”
Tedros said lockdowns were “a second window of opportunity” and urged countries to implement a system to find every suspected coronavirus case at the community...
