WHO: new strain of coronavirus is not out of control



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“In a way, that means we have to work harder,” WHO emergency manager Michael Ryan told a news conference. “Even if the virus has become a little more widespread, it can be stopped.”

“So this situation is not out of control. However, it cannot be left to the will of fate,” he added.

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock previously said the new coronavirus strain was “out of control”, with British officials saying its infectivity could reach 70%. higher than the most common varieties so far prevalent,

“The measures currently in place are the correct ones,” Ryan said.

“We have to do what we did, we may have to do it a little more intensely and a little more to make sure that we can control the virus.”

Some 30 countries have closed their borders to people traveling from Britain or South Africa, where a new strain of the virus has emerged to stop its spread.



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