Mon 03 August 2020:
The World Health Organization has warned that despite hopes for a vaccine, there may never be a “silver bullet” for coronavirus, and the road to normality will be long.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan exhorted all nations to rigorously enforce all health measures, Tedros telling a virtual news briefing that face masks should become a symbol of solidarity around the world.
“A number of vaccines are now in phase three clinical trials, and we all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection. However, there’s no silver bullet at the moment – and there might never be.”
Groundwork for virus origin probe
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has finished laying the groundwork for a probe into the origins of Covid-19.
The UN health agency said two experts had completed a “scoping mission” in China, marking the initial phase of an investigation aimed at identifying how humans were infected with coronavirus.
An international team, including leading scientists and researchers from China and around the world, will now begin investigations.
Studies will start in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first identified late last year.
It is thought the disease originated at an animal market in Wuhan, where it was transferred to a person.
