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World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will be self-quarantining over the coming days. Gizmodo reports the move comes after Ghebreyesus came into close contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. Tedros tweeted Sunday evening that he was well and asymptomatic, but he was planning to isolate himself according to the WHO’s own protocols. It is critically important that we all comply with health guidance. This is how we will break chains of #COVID19 transmission, suppress the virus, and protect health systems. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General, World Health Organization The WHO is based in Geneva, which is currently being clobbered with the record-breaking number of nine thousand cases of COVID-19 per day.
At a Covid-19 press briefing, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the WHO needs 23.4 dollars for the ACT-Accelerator partnership of leading global health agencies to meet its global targets and "deliver the tools that are needed to countries over the next 12 months". SOUNDBITE
Depok, Aug 16 (EFE/EPA).- Face-to-face classes continue Indonesia despite the high number of Covid-19 infections.The Indonesian government has not yet decided to continue or relax the implementation of community activity restrictions (PPKM) level 4 which end 16 August. According to epidemiologist from Griffith University Australia, Dicky Budiman, said that PPKM did have an effect on decreasing cases in urban areas in Java-Bali. However, the progress has had no effect in rural areas where case and death rates remain high. (Camera: ADI WEDA). SHOT LIST: SCHOOL CHILDREN SIT DURING A CLASS SESSION AS THEY STUDY AT A PRIVATE SCHOOL IN DEPOK, INDONESIA.
Colombo, Aug 11 (EFE / EPA) .- Sri Lankan health authorities continued Wednesday to test for Covid-19 in Colombo, while the country lives its third wave of the pandemic.The Sri Lankan Medical Association has called on the government to shut down the country for at least two weeks to prevent increased infections.Since the beginning of the pandemic, Sri Lanka has registered more than 335,000 infections and 5,430 deaths from Covid-19.(Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)SHOT LIST: COVID-19 TESTING IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Beijing, Aug 9 (EFE/EPA).- China has imposed mass domestic travel restrictions, as well as international travel restrictions for its residents, allowing Chinese people to leave the country only under certain conditions, in order to curb the new outbreak of Covid-19.The coronavirus outbreak, caused mainly by the Delta variant and what has now become China's worst outbreak in more than a year, was first detected on 20 July among airport cleaning staff in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, and has already infected hundreds of people and spread to over two dozen cities including Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged, and the capital Beijing. Since the Delta outbreak began spreading across China, the authorities have imposed lockdowns on some residential areas, Covid-19 mass testing, domestic and international travel restrictions. (Camera: ROMAN PILIPEY).SHOT LIST: PASSENGERS OUTSIDE THE BEIJING RAILWAY STATION AMID THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IN BEIJING, CHINA.
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