Its regional director for the Western Pacific says the health sector needs to sit down the business sector to find ways to move forward. FMTNews Covid19 WHO
The World Health Organization says people should not have to choose between health and livelihood as the Covid-19 pandemic takes its toll among nations.
Kasai said that in the past five months, the virus had infected 4.35 million people and caused almost 300,000 deaths and that healthcare workers had also been infected by the virus.On easing movement, he said there was no one right fix that would fit all nations.On a possible second wave of infections, Kasai said as long as the virus was circulating in our interconnected world, everyone remained at risk unless a vaccine was found.
Asked why the death rate in some countries was lower than in others, Kasai said there was a common approach in Asia to detect cases early and to isolate them.He said the approach was due to the bitter experience from the 2003 SARS outbreak.
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