WHO: Too many countries headed in wrong direction
The head of the World Health Organization has warned that many countries are not handling the coronavirus pandemic properly. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Monday that 230,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported to the organization on Sunday.
He said "too many countries are headed in the wrong direction." He also warned that "if governments do not roll out a comprehensive strategy focused on suppressing transmission and saving lives, the pandemic is going to get worse and worse and worse."
The WHO chief added that there will be no return to the "old normal" for the foreseeable future. The head of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, Michael Ryan, referred to countries in North and South Americas where the virus continues to rage. He suggested that limited lockdowns may be required in specific areas where transmission is out of control. He also referred to a two-member advance team that the WHO sent to China to lay the ground for a study into how the coronavirus began spreading there. Ryan said that the two experts are in quarantine at the moment, and that they are already working with Chinese health authorities remotely.
He said the advance team will "lay out what the main questions, what the approach, what the studies that are going to be needed by a much larger international team that will work in collaboration with the Chinese colleagues over the coming weeks and months." China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters on Monday that the two WHO experts had arrived in China for research on the source of the coronavirus.
But she did not elaborate on the schedule of their activity in the country.
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technically speaking they have been for a long time.
At least 15 years.
The rules get changed when they don't like the results.