Travel Bans Will Not Continue Forever: WHO

“It is going to be almost impossible for individual countries to keep their borders shut for the foreseeable future. Economies have to open up, people have to work, trade has to resume,” the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Monday.

“Where these measures are followed, cases go down. Where they are not, cases go up,” he added, as quoted by Reuters.

“What is clear is pressure on the virus pushes the numbers down. Release that pressure and cases creep back up.”

“What has essentially occurred in many countries is that in nightclubs, other situations, dormitories, other environments in which people are close together can act as amplification points for the disease and then it can spread back into the community. We need to be hyper-alert on those.”

“What we need to worry about is situations where the problems aren’t being surfaced, where the problems are being glossed over, where everything looks good.”

“The more we understand the disease, the more we have a microscope on the virus, the more precise we can be in surgically removing it from our communities.”