Youth hitting clubs, beaches leading rise in coronavirus cases: WHO

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GENEVA: Young people who are hitting nightclubs and beaches are leading a rise in fresh coronavirus cases across the world, with the proportion of those aged 15 to 24 who are infected rising three-fold in about five months, the World Health Organisation (WHO)...

Even countries such as Vietnam, which was widely praised for its mitigation efforts since the coronavirus appeared in late January, are battling new clusters of infection.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the leading US expert on infectious diseases, urged young people last month to continue to socially distance, wear masks and avoid crowds, and cautioned that asymptomatic people could spread the virus, too. "We've said this before and we'll say it again: young people are not invincible," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing in Geneva last week.

 

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