The World Health Organisation’s emergency chief says it is “too easy” to blame outbreaks of the coronavirus that have appeared in places such as Britain, South Africa and Brazil.
GENEVA – World Health Organization emergency chief said Friday that the impact of new COVID-19 changes in places like Britain, South Africa and Brazil is visible, citing human behavior for some recent rise in numbers diseases.
“It’s just too easy to blame the opposite and say, ‘It was the virus that did it,'” Dr Michael Ryan told reporters. “Well unfortunately, it’s also that we didn’t do it.”
That related to making vacations and other social ties as well as keeping up to date – in pockets – with calls from public health officials for people to respect measures such as physical speed, regular hand hygiene and mask wear.
Also on Friday, the WHO Emergency Committee issued new recommendations that countries should not be vaccinated with travelers arriving amid the pandemic, saying decisions about International travel to be coordinated, time-limited, and based on both the risks and the science.
“If you look at the committee’s recommendation on passenger vaccination, it says ‘at this point,'” Ryan said. He said those recommendations noted that vaccines are not yet widespread and it is unclear whether they prevent transmission between humans.
The recommendations followed the committee’s first meeting in almost three months. Surprisingly, the panel agreed that the uprising remains a global health crisis, nearly a year after it was declared one.
The advice comes as countries take action to address the new variables that have spread concerns about the accelerated spread of the virus – and have encouraged new lock-in measures in places hard as Europe.
The British government has banned travel from South America and Portugal – the main gateway of flights from Brazil – to try to keep the Brazilian variable from reaching Britain and disrupt the program. their vaccine.
The committee said it would encourage states to “implement a coordinated, time-limited and evidence-based approach to health measures for international travel. ”
He also called on vaccine manufacturers to make data on the results more accessible to the WHO, saying delays could affect its ability to provide emergency use lists that could allow “access to be vaccinated. ”
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