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The envoy of the World Health Organization for Covid-19, David Nabaro, predicts a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments do not do what is necessary again, as happened before the second wave, Reuters reported.
“During the summer months, they were unable to build the necessary infrastructure after dominating the first wave,” Nabaro said in an interview with Swiss media.
“Now we have a second wave. If they don’t build the necessary infrastructure, at the beginning of next year we will have a third wave,” added the Briton, who in 2017 ran unsuccessfully for WHO director general.
Europe has briefly enjoyed a reduction in morbidity, but now it has risen again: Germany and France totaled 33,000 new cases yesterday, Switzerland and Austria have thousands of cases a day, and Turkey has reported a record 5,532 new cases.
In an interview, Nabaro drew attention to Switzerland’s decision to allow skiing with a requirement to wear masks on the lifts, given that other Alpine countries like Austria have closed ski resorts. He said Switzerland could reach “a fairly high level of morbidity and mortality.”
“Once the incidence decreases and decreases, we can be as free as we want,” Nabaro was quoted as saying by the Zoloturner Zeitung. “But right now? Should the ski resorts be open? Under what conditions?” He asked.
Nabaro praised the actions of some Asian countries, such as South Korea, where the incidence is now relatively low. “People are completely committed, they wear masks, they adopt behaviors that prevent the virus. They keep their distance, they wear masks, they isolate themselves when they are sick, they wash their hands and surfaces. They protect the most threatened groups,” he said.
Nabaro added that Asia has not relaxed the measures prematurely, he said. Investor.bg.
“We have to wait until the number of cases stays low and so on,” he said. “Europe’s reaction was incomplete,” he added.
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