WHO urges aggressive virus measures as flare-ups spark new closures


The World Health Organisation has urged authorities to step up measures against Covid-19, saying the pandemic can still be controlled. – EPA pic, July 11, 2020.

THE World Health Organisation has urged countries grappling with coronavirus to step up control measures, saying it is still possible to rein it in, as some nations clamp fresh restrictions on citizens.

With case numbers worldwide more than doubling in the past six weeks, Uzbekistan yesterday returned to lockdown and Hong Kong said schools will close from Monday after the city recorded “exponential growth” in locally transmitted infections.


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