said some places in the Americas may need “limited or geographically focused lockdowns that suppress transmission in specific areas where transmission is frankly out of control”.
He urged countries not to make schools into a political football, saying schools could safely reopen once the virus had been suppressed. Mr Tedros said the WHO had still not received formal notification of the US pullout announced by Mr Trump. The US president says the WHO pandered toMr Trump, who at the weekend wore a protective face mask in public for the first time, has himself been accused by political opponents of not taking the coronavirus seriously enough, something he denies.
A two-member WHO advance team in China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, first discovered in the city of
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