Countries must return to public health surveillance in COVID-19 fight: WHO's Ryan

FILE PHOTO: Executive Director of the World Health Organization's emergencies program Mike Ryan speaks at a news conference on the novel coronavirus in Geneva, Switzerland February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

The WHO, which said it is facing a $1.3 billion funding deficit for its effort to tackle COVID-19, issued the call for more surveillance as many countries including the United States, Switzerland, Mexico and Germany have turned their efforts toward re-opening economies battered by the pandemic. “We seem...to be avoiding the uncomfortable reality that we need to get back to public health surveillance,” Mike Ryan, the head of the WHO’s health emergencies programme, said during a media briefing. “We need to go back to where we should have been months ago — finding cases, tracking cases, testing cases, isolating people who are tested positive, doing quarantine for contacts.”

WHO’s Ryan on Friday urged nations to stick together as the disease spreads from country to country, sometimes at different rates and with wide swings in death tolls. Ryan highlighted how Russia appears to be dealing with a “delayed epidemic” as a spike in confirmed new infections in recent days has catapulted it past France and Germany in total number of cases.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

This is the beginning of what we thought could never be possible

We will all war with Covid 19 until it kills us or we defeat it.

Un Estado de vigilante, corrupto transformó una epidemia en una pandemia-¿porque confiar? La OMS no puede compensar el compromiso de las instituciones financieras que enriquecer a los Estados que no respetan los instrumentos de la Carta de las ONU y de los DerechosHumanos. DUDH

THIS IS SICK...

Get rid of these clawns! They mean no good for humanity!

You two are worse.

Suggest you ring China and ask for a donation

Reuter is liar. Fake news about India gets preference

No way

Stop feeding the world with lies and rather expose Bill Gates and Dr fauci for the harm they have done to humanity. Killing millions for money and power.

Yes they should like the Chinese for instance? Also the WHO should of declared a pandemic a lot sooner.

DrMikeRyan must return ASAP to Canada, because the court is awaiting him..

Surveillance is unconstitutional in the US, and if the US government pushes for it, I will believe then the government infected the population to enable it.

Mandatory chippychip

This is what Turkey does with 6.000 health workers for weeks! Here is the result;

W.H.O.

So a Chinese loyal organization is promoting surveillance? Got it. What a joke!

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