Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at WHO -

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While the coronavirus is still as virulent, "it is dangerous to give up control" the pandemic, said Monday the boss of the WHO, clearly taking the opposite of the statements of the chief of staff of the American president Donald Trump the day before .

"We must not give up and that is why we say that if we agree with the chief of staff that protecting the most vulnerable is important, giving up taking control (of the pandemic) is dangerous" , said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during a press conference.

"We cannot give up"

The latter admitted that after months of fighting the pandemic which killed more than 1.1 million people, some fatigue was setting in but he called for the fight to continue only one day after Mark Meadows hinted that the United States gave up "taking control" of the pandemic but instead bet on drugs and vaccines.

"The control (of the pandemic) must also be part of the strategy", launched Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after having already urged not to be discouraged in his traditional opening remarks at the beginning of the press conference.

“We cannot give up.

We must not give up, ”he hammered.

“The government must do its part and the citizens must too, otherwise the virus is dangerous.

If we let it circulate freely, it can create havoc, in particular as long as we do not have a vaccine available, ”he insisted.

Faced with the explosion of new infections, especially in Europe and the United States, WHO officials tirelessly repeat the same message: it is never too late to fight the virus and we must use the whole range of means to provision to do this and attempt to escape new generalized containment measures as we could see them in the spring.

Europe as an epicenter

WHO Emergency Manager Michael Ryan underlined the gravity of the situation in Europe, which for the WHO ranges from Iceland to the Russian Far East in two statistics.

“This past week, 46% of all (Covid-19) cases worldwide came from the Europe region,” he said.

This is almost a third of all deaths in the world.

There is therefore no doubt that the European region is an epicenter of the disease at this time.

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The person in charge of the management of the pandemic at the WHO, Maria Van Kerkhove, admitted to being concerned about the increase in the number of hospitalizations and admissions in intensive care units and projections which show that they will reach saturation. "In the days and weeks to come".

"Europeans can do it again"

"There are a lot of things that these countries can do to come to control" the pandemic, she affirmed once again, recalling that countries all over the Old Continent had succeeded in drastically reducing the number of cases.

"They can do it again," she insisted, recalling how important it was to identify all people in contact with a proven positive case and to quarantine them.

“The other option, if we don't quarantine contacts of proven cases, is that everyone be in quarantine, and that's what we want to avoid,” she warned. .

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