He recalled that the largest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic was previously identified.

“Working from home, teaching children remotely, the inability to celebrate important events with friends and family or be present when mourning loved ones is hard, and COVID-19 fatigue is real ... But we cannot give up, we must not give up,” TASS quotes the head of WHO.

He called for "doing everything possible to protect health workers."

The best remedy, he called precautions to reduce the risk of disease.

“Nobody wants so-called lockdowns due to COVID-19 anymore.

But if we want to avoid this, then we must all take on a part (of the common task of preventing the spread of infection -

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), "he said.

At the same time, according to him, “one should not wait for magic solutions” in connection with the current outbreak of coronavirus.

On October 23, WHO recorded a new anti-record for the daily increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the world - 445,419.