WHO doesn't think the British government is doing enough to protect the population.
The UK needs to be taking more ‘action’ against the coronavirus epidemic, the World Health Organisation has said.
Instead, he has urged anyone with symptoms to self-isolate and asked the population to thoroughly wash their hands.These moves differ significantly from other European countries which have issued tight restrictions on peoples’ movements as the pandemic worsens.supports HTML5 videoWHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told BBC Radio 4’s Today: ‘We don’t know enough about the science of this virus, it hasn’t been in our population for long enough for us to know what it does in immunological terms.
France, the Netherlands, Iceland, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Romania have banned gatherings of more than 100 people.Schools have shut in 17 European countries, including the Republic of Ireland. ‘Find, isolate, test and treat every case to break the chains of Covid transmission. Every case we find and treat limits the expansion of the disease.‘Any country that looks at the experience of other countries with large epidemics and thinks “that won’t happen to us” is making a deadly mistake.’The UK government believes the virus will infect the majority of the population and that the peak could still 10 to 14 weeks away.
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