Coronavirus: W.H.O Gives Six(6) Conditions Before Any Country Can End Its Lockdown

naturalbeautyApr 17, 2020Read original

In order to prevent another surge of infections, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Thursday April 16th revealed that those Countriesthat wanting to end coronavirus restrictions must meet up with some rows of conditions.

The Director General while speaking in his weekly address told Geneva-based diplomats, that easing economic and social curbs “must be done very carefully.”

The DG warned that “we risk a resurgence that could be even worse than our present situation,” if the lifting up of restrictions by several countries is done too quickly."

Firstly, Governments must make sure that the spread of the deadly COVID19 is seriously under control.

In regards to the new WHO guidelines, health authorities must have an insight on the origin of every single case and cluster of infections.

And also, all recent social contacts of every infected person must be tracked down, and National health systems (like the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control) must be able to find, test, isolate and treat every new case.

In addition, The DG emphasized that those countries that want to ease their curbs must find a way to reduce the infection risks in hot spot settings such as hospitals and nursing homes.

For the fourth condition, Tedros Adhanom, said that preventive measures should be put into consideration in schools, workplaces, and other important locations.

According to the new WHO guidelines, this includes hygiene etiquette and physical distancing, and, possibly, temperature measurements.

The 5th condition is that affected countries must be able to handle the risk of imported new cases from abroad, by detecting those travellers who were infected, and also quarantining those who were coming from countriesthat was badly affected.

And lastly, the DG announced that it is very essential that “ various communities are fully educated, empowered and engaged, in order to adjust to the ‘new norm’” of behaving in ways that can curtail new infections.