Daily testing of staff will begin today in a western Sydney aged care home to help stop infection rates from rising. 9News
Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the new coronavirus will pose significant risks until vaccines are developed, the WHO's top emergencies expert says.
Executive director of the World Health Organisation's emergencies program Mike Ryan says while many countries are still in the eye of the storm, others are beginning to show it is possible to contain the disease to some extent."At a global level the situation is still very, very serious but the pattern of the disease and the trajectory of the virus is very different in different parts of the world right now," he said.
"What we're learning is that it is possible to get this disease under control and it is possible to begin resuming normal economic and social life, with a new way of having to do that, and with extreme caution and vigilance." However, some countries in Africa and in central and South America are still seeing "an upwards trajectory in cases", Ryan warned. More than 3.44 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 243,015 have died, according to a Reuters tally as of yesterday.
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