[NEWS] COVID-19: "We Have A Long Road Ahead Of Us And A Lot Of Work To Do" – WHO says

The coronavirus pandemic is "a long way from being done" is as yet disturbing typical wellbeing administrations, particularly life-sparing inoculation for youngsters in the least fortunate nations, the leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

The epic coronavirus, which developed before the end of last year in the focal Chinese city of Wuhan, has alrady contaminated 2.97 million and guaranteed 205,948 lives, as indicated by the most recent Reuters count.

The U.N. office is worried about rising quantities of cases and passings in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and some Asian nations, even as the numbers smooth or decrease in some wealthier countries.

“We have a long road ahead of us and a lot of work to do,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news meeting in Geneva, including that a second rush of contaminations could be forestalled with the correct activities.


Tedros communicated worry that the strength of kids was being compromised by the effect of the coronavirus crisis on immunization programs for different ailments.

“Children may be at relatively low risk from severe disease and death from COVID-19 – the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus – but can be at high risk from other diseases that can be prevented with vaccines,” said Tedros. 

Somewhere in the range of 13 million individuals have been influenced worldwide by delays in customary immunisations against sicknesses including polio, measles, cholera, yellow fever and meningitis, he said.