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WHO urges countries to use “a second window of opportunity” to stop COVID-19 transmission
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Calling it “a second window of opportunity”, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday urged countries to use this critical window now to suppress and stop transmission of COVID-19.
This window of opportunity was created by those countries and regions which introduced unprecedented “lockdown” measures to contain COVID-19 pandemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted at a daily briefing, reminding that these measures will not extinguish epidemics on their own.
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Tedros recommended six key actions to enable the more precise and targeted measures.
Specifically, Tedros called on countries to expand, train and deploy health care and public health workforce, implement a system to find every suspected case at community level, and ramp up the production, capacity and availability of testing.