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The World Health Organization said Wednesday that the new coronavirus “may never go away” and that people will have to learn to live with it. Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has infected a total of 43.47 lakh people worldwide and 2.97 lakh patients have died.
“This virus can become another endemic virus in our communities and will never disappear,” said Michael Ryan, the agency’s director of emergencies, at a virtual press conference in Geneva. “HIV has not disappeared, but we have come to terms with the virus … we have found therapies and we have found prevention methods and people are not as scared as before.”
Ryan added that it was difficult to foresee when we will be able to prevail over the virus, since it was the first time that “a new virus” entered the human population.
Most countries imposed some form of blockade to stem the spread of infection, and some of them gradually relaxed restrictions recently. However, the WHO cautioned that there was no way to guarantee that lightening the curves would not lead to a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
“Many countries would like to get out of the different measures,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “But our recommendation remains that the alert in any country should be at the highest possible level.”
Ryan said there was still some time to go before normalcy returned, adding that there was “some magical thinking” that locks work flawlessly and that “unlocking locks will be great.”
The WHO director of emergencies also condemned the attacks on health workers and said more than 35 “fairly serious” episodes were reported in 11 countries in April. “Covid-19 is bringing out the best in us, but it is also bringing out some of the worst,” he added. “People feel empowered to take out their frustrations on people who are simply trying to help. These are senseless acts of violence and discrimination that must be resisted. “
In India, there have been cases of attacks on health workers, police personnel and those trying to carry out the latest rites of patients with Covid-19.
On April 28, residents of a village in the Ambala town of Haryana clashed with police and threw stones at doctors after refusing to allow the cremation of a Covid-19 suspect. On April 22, three people in the Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh attacked a doctor and a policeman on Wednesday when they went to the village of Gaswani to detect a patient with the coronavirus infection. The National Security Law against the accused was invoked. On April 19, a mob in Chennai attacked a group, including doctors, during the funeral of a neurosurgeon who had tested positive for Covid-19.
On April 22, the Indian government introduced an ordinance to attack health professionals, deployed on the front line to combat the coronavirus pandemic, a crime that cannot be rescued. The new law will carry a prison sentence of six months to seven years and compensation for victims.
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