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June 12, 2020"We must learn to live with colvirus. We hope to find an effective vaccine, but this is not guaranteed to happen." This was stated by WHO emergency chief Mike Ryan in the usual Covid-19 briefing.
"Governments around the world must strike a balance between virus control and the social and economic consequences of the measures," he added, admitting that "it is easier to give these directions while sitting here, more difficult to put them into practice."
"In some countries second peak, different from second wave"
"In some countries we are seeing a second peak, which occurs when the virus maintains a low level of contagion and then these increase. Not really a second wave, but the result of reopening , of the new movement of people but without adequate distancing and without the ability to capture, isolate and treat individual cases. This phenomenon occurs more often at a sub-national than national level and it is not surprising that it occurs after the loosening of the lockdowns, but it's not necessarily a second wave, "explained Ryan.
"We need to balance public health and the economy in the best way - he continued - and there are no guides for this. Yes, we are worried for many countries, but there are ways to avoid new lockdowns: it is micro-processes, the precisely identify all cases, have detailed data and know where the virus is, intervening without involving the entire population. This depends on the capacity of the health systems, which I can manage to avoid 'blanket' measures, involving an entire country What we have to do now is therefore to focus on public health surveillance and on the strong relationship with the population ".