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Countries entering the winter months will have to choose between having bars and nightclubs open or schools in session, said Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program on Tuesday. .
“We have to keep up the pressure on this virus, we have to reduce transmission at the community level to reduce the risk for the elderly and vulnerable and maintain an environment where our children can continue to attend school,” Ryan said during a meeting. informative in Geneva.
So what is more important? Are the children back to school? Are the nightclubs and bars open? he said. “I think these are decisions that we have to make as we enter the winter months.”
Since there is no vaccine yet, to keep children in school and protect the elderly and vulnerable, there is no alternative to sustained surveillance, testing and tracing, rapid results, cluster investigation, case isolation, and quarantine of contacts, Ryan said.
“Sorry to be boring, and sorry to keep repeating this over and over again, but there are no alternatives,” he said. “This is what we must do.”
“If we are going to serve our children and the elderly and vulnerable people in our population who could die this winter in these countries, then we must maintain these other activities and they cannot be sustained without the commitment of the government to do this and the commitment of the society to participate and be part of this, ”he said.
