The World Health Organization urged countries grappling with coronavirus to step up control measures, saying it is still possible to rein it in, as some countries clamped fresh restrictions on citizens.
AGGRESSIVE MEASURES. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a press conference organised by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents amid the COVID-19 outbreak on July 3, 2020. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP
The WHO's comments came as US President Donald Trump was forced to cancel an election rally in New Hampshire due to a storm. In Uzbekistan, citizens were from Friday again facing lockdown restrictions originally imposed in March but lifted gradually over the past two months. Private transport within cities will be limited to morning and early evening journeys and essential purposes such as travelling to work and purchasing food and medicine.
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