Mon 13 July 2020:
The pandemic could potentially get far worse if all nations do not adhere to basic healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
“Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from WHO headquarters in Geneva.
“If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go, it is going to get worse and worse and worse. But it does not have to be this way.”
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“The poorest and the most marginalised are going to be hit the hardest,” says the report.
In the month of April only, more than 1.6 billion students were out of school and “for the first time in human history an entire generation has their education disrupted”.
Even before the pandemic, 258 million children were out of school.
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