Despite rush to discover new vaccines, the WHO warns there is no easy fix for the virus. Instead, WHO urged governments to do the basics of public health and disease control: contact tracing, testing, physical distancing, and wearing masks. READ:
The World Health Organization warned Monday, August 3, that there might never be a"silver bullet" for the new coronavirus, despite theThe WHO urged governments and citizens to focus on doing the known basics, such as testing, contact tracing, maintaining physical distance and wearing a mask in order to suppress the, which has upended normal life around the globe and triggered a devastating economic crisis.
The UN health agency sent an epidemiologist and an animal health specialist to Beijing on July 10 to lay the groundwork for a probe aimed at identifying how the virus entered the human species."The WHO advance team that traveled to China has now concluded their mission to lay the groundwork for further joint efforts to identify the virus origins," he said.
"The international team will include leading scientists and researchers from China and around the world.
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