The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that the international travel ban cannot last forever, and countries must do more to limit the spread of the Corona virus emerging (Covid-19) within their borders, describing the pandemic as the worst global health emergency faced by the organization.
The high number of cases of the disease caused some countries to take decisions to re-impose some restrictions on travel in the past days. Britain caused confusion in the process of reopening the European tourism sector, after it ordered the quarantine of returnees from Spain.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gebresus, said in a press statement via the Internet from Geneva, that the world will not be able to overcome the pandemic of "Covid-19" except by making sure to follow the health measures from putting masks to stay away from the crowds.
He continued, "Wherever these standards are applied, cases of infection decline, while they rise in places where they are not applied." He praised Canada, China, Germany and South Korea for being able to control the outbreak.
He described the pandemic that affected more than 16 million people worldwide as the worst global health emergency faced by the organization.
For his part, said Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO emergency program, that it is impossible for countries to keep their borders closed in the foreseeable future.
He added, "It will be almost impossible for individual countries to keep their borders closed for the foreseeable future. "Economies must return to work, people must resume business, and trade must resume."
He continued: «What is clear is that the pressure on the virus causes the number of cases to decrease. "Reducing this pressure makes it increase again."
Ryan said that the current situation in Spain is not so bad as it was at the height of the pandemic there, and he expected Madrid to control the hotbeds of outbreaks, but he pointed out that determining the pattern of spreading the disease in the future will take days or weeks.
He added: "The more we understand the disease, and the more we put it under the microscope ... the more accurate our ability to rid our societies of it."