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Covid-19 pandemic is ‘a long way from over’, WHO says – Yahoo News Australia
Last week, she said, 4.4 million new infections were reported, up from about 500,000 cases at this time a year ago.
Confusion and complacency in addressing Covid-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over but it can be brought under control in months with proven public health measures, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.
So far 780 million vaccines have been administered globally but measures including wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing must be applied to reverse the trajectory.
“We too want to see societies and economies reopening, and travel and trade resuming,” Tedros told…
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