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The director of the World Health Organization made several statements aimed at limiting global enthusiasm for the production of the Covid vaccine. According to him, restrictions such as testing, contact tracing and even quarantine must be maintained in order to stop the coronavirus pandemic once and for all.
The WHO, through the voice of the director of Tedros, Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that a vaccine alone will not be enough to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, reports AFP, cited by Agerpres.
“A vaccine will complement other instruments that we have, it will not replace them,” said the head of the WHO, on the occasion of the agency’s executive board, which this time was present in the room, after being quarantined at 2 pm November after contact with a person who tested positive for coronavirus. During this time, Tedros continued to exercise his remote duties.
Regarding the vaccine, Both the WHO Director-General and his deputies have been trying in recent days to curb optimism last week after laboratories Pfizer and BioNTech announced that preliminary data from phase 3 trials of their vaccine showed an effectiveness of the 90%.
”Initially, quantities will be limited and therefore medical personnel, the elderly and people at risk will have priority and we hope this will reduce the number of deaths and allow health systems to survive, ” said Tedros.
“But it will still leave a lot of room for the virus to operate,” he warned, urging not to prematurely end measures to control the spread of the virus, such as testing, quarantine, contact tracing, etc.
The pandemic has regained strength in many European countries, forcing the authorities to take new measures to try to keep it under control. And in the United States, the number of cases of infection has skyrocketed in many states of the federation.
Editing: Alexandra Andronie
