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The head of the World Health Organization has stated that the fall in confirmed COVID-19 infections around the world was reassuring, but cautioned against relaxing restrictions that have helped curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said the number of reported infections globally has declined for the fourth week in a row, and the number of deaths also fell for the second consecutive week.
“These declines seem to be due to states implementing public health measures more stringently,” Tedros stated.
“Now is not the time for any nation to unwind measures or for any individual to let down their guard,” he added. “Every life that is lost now is all the more tragic as vaccines are beginning to be rolled out.”
While the figures reported by countries to the WHO for the week ending Feb 8 are still incomplete, the international body said so much about 1.9 million recently confirmed cases were registered worldwide, down from more than 3.2 million the prior week.
Tedros said members of a WHO expert mission who recently visited China to investigate the possible origin of the outbreak would publish a summary of the findings next week.
Chinese scientists and the WHO”s group of international researchers said this week that the coronavirus probably first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, and another theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory was unlikely.
Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of the WHO mission, said Friday the labs in Wuhan that his team visited said they hadn’t been working with the virus that causes COVID-19, or had it in their collections before the outbreak. But he said it was possible the virus could still be present in samples that haven”t yet been examined.
He said the team had acquired a much better insight into the early stages of the outbreak and concluded that there was no large audience of the disease at Wuhan or elsewhere around town in the months ahead of the initial cases in December 2019.
But he added that scientists are still”far away from understanding the origin and identifying animal species and, or the pathways from which the virus could have entered the human in December.”
Tedros, the WHO’s director-general, stated that the Geneva-based body had this week held its first meeting to help diagnose and define exactly what he called post-COVID condition, also known as long COVID.
“This illness affects patients with both mild and severe COVID-19,” he said. “Part of the challenge is that patients with long COVID may have a variety of different symptoms that can be persistent or can come and go.”
“Of course, the best way to stop long COVID is to avoid COVID-19 in the first place.”
