LONDON (Reuters) – Nations can’t just lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s top emergency specialist stated on Sunday, adding that public health steps are needed to avoid a revival of the virus later on.
FILE IMAGE: Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergencies program Mike Ryan speaks at a news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland February 6,2020 REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Image
” What we really require to concentrate on is discovering those who are ill, those who have the virus, and isolate them, discover their contacts and isolate them,” Mike Ryan said in an interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Program.
” The risk today with the lockdowns … if we