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November 01, 2020 – 08:32 pm
AFP
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that he has voluntarily quarantined himself after being in contact with a person who had tested positive for covid-19, despite having no symptoms.
“I have been identified as a contact with someone who has tested positive for # COVID19,” reports Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a tweet.
“I am fine and have no symptoms but I will observe a quarantine in the next few days, in accordance with the @WHO protocols and I work from home,” he added.
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Tedros has been at the forefront of efforts by the UN’s highest authority on health to curb the pandemic, which has claimed nearly 1.2 million lives and infected more than 46 million people in the world since the new coronavirus emerged in China at the end of last year.
On Twitter he stresses that “it is extremely important that we all comply with the health guidelines.”
“This is how we will break the # COVID19 transmission chain, eradicate the virus and protect health systems.”
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