GENEVA : Nations who fail to use every mechanism available to combat the still-raging novel coronavirus will struggle to beat it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday."Some countries ...
have taken a fragmented approach. These countries face a long, hard road ahead," Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from WHO headquarters in Geneva, without singling out any nations.More than 10.5 million people have been infected globally and more than half a million have died since the COVID-19 disease first emerged in China.Tedros said local flare-ups were inevitable as some nations began lifting lockdown restrictions. "But countries that have the systems in place to apply a comprehensive approach should.