{"id":86126,"date":"2020-08-04T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=86126"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:00:45","slug":"covid-19-there-might-never-be-a-silver-bullet-for-coronavirus-who-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=86126","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: There might never be a \u201csilver bullet\u201d for coronavirus &#8211; WHO chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/qqq.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/qqq-696x418.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GENEVA, Aug 4 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Although a number of vaccines are now in phase three clinical trials, there\u2019s no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be for COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a Monday  virtual press conference that for now, stopping COVID-19 outbreaks comes down to the basics of public health and disease control, including testing, isolating and treating patients, and tracing and quarantining their contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor individuals, it\u2019s about keeping physical distance, wearing a mask, cleaning hands regularly and coughing safely away from others \u2014 Do it all,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO chief told reporters that most people in the world remain susceptible to this virus, even in areas that have experienced severe outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past weeks the WHO chief has repeatedly stressed that although the world has changed, the basic measures needed to suppress transmission and save lives have not \u2014 find, isolate, test and care for cases, and trace and quarantine their contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCountries and communities that have followed this advice carefully and consistently have done well, either in preventing large-scale outbreaks \u2014 like Cambodia, New Zealand, Rwanda, Thailand, Vietnam, and islands in the Pacific and Caribbean \u2014 or in bringing large outbreaks under control, like Canada, China, Germany and the Republic of Korea,\u201d he said earlier last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 31, the WHO Emergency Committee on COVID-19 met and reviewed the current pandemic, and based on the advice of the Committee, Tedros announced that the COVID-19 outbreak still constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA, Aug 4 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Although a number of vaccines are now in phase three clinical trials, there\u2019s no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be for COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief said. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a Monday virtual press conference that for now, stopping COVID-19 outbreaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":86128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}