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The WHO welcomed on Monday the remission of the new coronavirus pandemic in several countries, but urged to exercise “extreme vigilance” in a period of lack of confidence.
Part of Europe, including France and Spain, on Monday began to ease measures to restrict the movement of people taken to slow the spread of the virus and prevent the collapse of their health systems.
The lack of confidence is a sign of the “success” of the efforts made to “stop the virus and save lives,” estimated the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a telematic press conference from the agency’s headquarters in Geneva.
The head of health emergencies at WHO, Michael Ryan, also pointed out that there are reasons for “hope”, but urged the affected countries to show “extreme vigilance”.
While there are countries that “made significant investments to improve their public health capacity during confinement, others did not.”
“If the disease persists at a low level in countries that do not have the ability to study the foci, identify them, there is a risk that the disease will reappear,” he warned.
Some countries have thrown themselves “blindly” into mistrust without equipping themselves with the means to test and track suspected cases when they were still on time, he said.
WHO officials reiterated that the return to normal, with current epidemiological knowledge, it cannot be based on a hypothetical “collective immunization”.
“Preliminary serological studies show that a relatively low portion of the population has covid-19 antibodies,” said Tedros, meaning that “the majority of the population is still exposed to the virus.”
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