“WHO continues to estimate that the risk posed by the Covid-19 is very high,” said the instance in a press release.
The world Health Organization (WHO), met Saturday in Geneva has warned that the pandemic coronavirus was likely to be “very long”.
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The emergency Committee of the organization, meeting since Friday for the fourth time to re-evaluate the pandemic, “noted that her term would certainly be very long,” said the WHO in a press release.
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“WHO continues to estimate that the risk posed by the Covid-19 is very high,” adds the press release. “The emergency committee” (made up of 18 members and 12 advisers), “stressed the importance of a response that needs to be a national, regional and global response to the pandemic. The coronavirus has infected at least 17.6 million people in the world, and more than 680 000 people dead, according to a count made from official sources.
effects “felt for decades to come,”
The emergency committee has asked the WHO to provide all the member countries of the instructions to be pragmatic about how to respond to the pandemic, “in order to reduce the risk that responses to the epidemic is waning, in a context of socio-economic pressures”. The committee also recommends that the WHO to accelerate research on the still unknown of the virus, especially its animal origin and the possible means of spread by way of animal.
It also calls for clarification of the points as “modes of transmission (of the virus), its potential change, immunity and correlates of protection”. The committee’s meeting, which lasted six hours, was held at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, with some of the participants linked by video. It is expected to meet again in three months.
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“This pandemic is a health crisis as we see only one per century, and its effects will be felt for decades to come”, said Friday the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Many scientific questions have been resolved, many are those who are still waiting to be”, he added. “Most of the inhabitants of the planet can be affected, even those who do not live in areas severely affected”.
