Countries must ease lockdowns slowly, be ready for virus to jump back: WHO

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Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for Covid-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Even if the virus is coming under control, communities must know to still follow physical distancing and hygiene measures, and testing of suspect cases must continue, its top emergencies expert Dr Mike Ryan said.

“It’s really important that as countries ease those measures that they are constantly on the look out for a jump in infections and in particular are dealing with transmission in special settings,” Ryan told a news conference.

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