Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, Director General of World Health Organisation, on Wednesday cautioned countries affected with Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) that lockdowns will not be enough to eradicate the virus from the world.<\/p>\n
Although the nations have implemented lockdowns to reduce the spread of the virus, they need to plan additional measures urgently for eradicating it, he said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on lockdown measures Ghebreyesu said, \u201cWe call on all countries who have introduced so-called lockdown measures, to use this time to attack the virus. You have created a second window of opportunity, the question is how will you use it?\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that the affected nations can avoid the economic and social restrictions brought about by lockdowns only by implementing \u201caggressive measures to find, isolate, test, treat and trace\u201d COVID-19 suspects.<\/p>\n
Several countries across the world have gone under lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 which has infected over 4 lakh people worldwide, causing over 18,000 deaths. India went under a countrywide lockdown from Tuesday midnight for 21 days.<\/p>\n
In India, 635 persons have so far tested positive, of whom 42 have been treated and discharged. There have been 13 across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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