Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press
conference in Geneva. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP
The World Health Organization chief insisted Monday that
it was still possible to rein in Covid-19 even in places with
surging outbreaks, warning against giving up the
fight.
“We must not give up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual
briefing.
He acknowledged that after months of battling the new
coronavirus, which has claimed more than 1.1 million lives
globally, a certain level of “pandemic fatigue” had set in.
“It’s tough and the fatigue is real,” Tedros said.
But we cannot give up,” he added, urging leaders to “balance the
disruption to lives and livelihoods”.
“When leaders act quickly, the virus can be suppressed,” he
insisted.
His comment came a day after US President Donald Trump’s chief
of staff Mark Meadows told CNN that the administration’s focus had
moved to mitigation, not stamping out the virus.
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“We’re not going to control the pandemic. We are going to
control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other
mitigations,” Meadows said, comparing the more deadly Covid-19 to
the seasonal flu.
Tedros said that giving up on virus controls was
“dangerous.”
When asked about the comments, WHO emergencies chief Michael
Ryan insisted that while mitigation of the effects of the pandemic
were vital, efforts to beat the virus could not be abandoned.
“We should not give up on trying to suppress transmission,” he
said.
AFP
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