WHO calls for return of Covid masks — RT World Information
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated the coronavirus pandemic was nowhere close to over
With circumstances of Covid-19 trending upward globally, World Well being Group Director Common Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus known as on Tuesday for authorities to carry again masking, air flow, and social distancing.
Talking throughout a weekly briefing, Tedros said that “the virus is working freely, and nations usually are not successfully managing the illness.” With the WHO concluding final week that the virus stays a ‘Public Well being Emergency of Worldwide Concern’, Tedros asserted that the pandemic was “nowhere close to over.”
Throughout the week of July 4-10, 2022, over 5.7 million new circumstances of Covid-19 have been reported, a 6% enhance in comparison with the earlier week. Deaths, nonetheless, have remained comparatively flat all through this summer time, with simply over 9,800 reported within the week main as much as July 4, 5 instances fewer than the identical week final 12 months.
Tedros known as on nationwide authorities to step up their efforts in “speaking danger” to the general public, and known as for a return of “public well being social measures like masking, distancing and air flow.”
Masks mandates and social distancing necessities have been largely deserted earlier this 12 months, though some nations – amongst them China and South Korea – nonetheless require face masks in most public settings.
