Coronavirus, WHO: no one wants more lockdowns, we must do our part

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October 26, 2020 "Nobody wants more lockdowns but if we want to avoid them, we must all do our part. We cannot have the economic recovery we want and live our lives as we did before the Covid-19 pandemic".

This was stated by the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

"We can keep our children in school, we can keep businesses open, we can preserve lives and livelihoods, but we all have to make compromises and sacrifices," he added.

"Last week saw the highest number of Covid-19 cases reported so far. Many countries in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing a worrying increase in cases and hospitalizations. And intensive care units are filling up to the max in some places. , particularly in Europe and North America ", said the WHO director general in the briefing in Geneva on the Covid-19 pandemic.

The World Health Organization has also made an appeal for global solidarity in the distribution of the future vaccine against Covid-19.

In a video-broadcast speech at the opening of the World Health Summit in Berlin, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the only way to overcome the pandemic is to do it all together and make sure the poorest countries have equal access to vaccine.

"It is natural that countries want to protect their citizens first, but if and when we have an effective vaccine, we will also need to use it effectively. And the best way to do this is to vaccinate certain people in all countries rather than all in some. Countries ".

"Let me be clear: vaccination nationalism will prolong the pandemic, not reduce it".