Travel bans cannot be indefinite, countries must fight COVID-19 at home: WHO

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The new coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 16 million people is easily the worst global health emergency the World Health Organization ...

GENEVA: Bans on international travel cannot stay in place indefinitely, and countries are going to have to do more to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus within their borders, the World Health Organization said on Monday .

"Where these measures are followed, cases go down. Where they are not, cases go up," he said, praising Canada, China, Germany and South Korea for controlling outbreaks. "What is clear is pressure on the virus pushes the numbers down. Release that pressure and cases creep back up." "And that is what has essentially occurred in many countries is that in nightclubs, other situations, dormitories, other environments in which people are close together can act as amplification points for the disease and then it can spread back into the community. We need to be hyper-alert on those.

 

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