WHO chief in quarantine after contact tests positive for Covid-19

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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was self-quarantining, but stressed that he had no symptoms.

"I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet.

Covid-19 has claimed nearly 1.2 million lives and infected over 46 million people worldwide since emerging in China late last year.Tedros stressed on Twitter that"it is critically important that we all comply with health guidance." The WHO urges all individuals to be careful about hand-washing, wearing masks and keeping a distance, while it calls on authorities at various levels to work to find, isolate, test and care for cases, then trace and quarantine their contacts.

Authorities in the region of some 500,000 people said the new measures were needed due to surging cases -- with more than 1,000 positive daily tests in recent days -- and also ballooning numbers of Covid-19 patients in Geneva hospitals and emergency care units.

 

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