OMS sees increasingly unlikely second major wave of cornavirus
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The director of Public Health of the World Health Organization (WHO), María Neira, said Monday that the models they work with are "increasingly" ruling out a second important wave of the coronavirus.
However, Neira called for "great caution" and "common sense" in this "very critical" phase of the pandemic, that of the de-escalation, in statements to the Barcelona radio station RAC-1.
The OMS directive requested that the population not have "neither paranoia nor excessive relaxation", and that they "learn to live with infectious diseases".
"There are many models that advance with a high probability. They speak from a punctual regrowth to a significant wave, but this last possibility is increasingly being ruled out. We are much better prepared in all areas," said the Spanish doctor.
According to Neira, "we have lowered the transmission rate so much that the virus will have difficulty surviving. We must be very careful to affirm if this is the end of the wave, but the data at least shows us that transmission and the explosion have been avoided the first few weeks. "
However, he pointed out that "it is worth not making many forecasts because the next few weeks are a very critical phase."
"With the opening you have to see how the virus behaves. We hope there will be no other outbreaks, but it will be a day-to-day battle. In two or three weeks we will see what has happened and if it is necessary to correct it surgically," he said of the de-escalation in phase 1 into which all of Spain has entered.
This country, like other European neighbors, began the de-escalation of movement restrictions, after weeks of confinement to prevent the spread of the virus.
Neira acknowledged that the OMS still has "certain doubts about the relationship of the virus with the weather", although they are seeing that "it is doing the geographical route expected of a virus that wants to survive."
"The immunity figures are very low. You have to be very vigilant in the de-escalation", the specialist warned again, admitting that "Brazil is already the second country with the most cases."
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