'Harm more than good': WHO urged countries not to quarantine again

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on the world to no longer introduce quarantines due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although the organization demanded that restrictive measures be unconditionally observed. Writes about it "Unian".

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The coronavirus epidemic has demonstrated some dubiousness of WHO recommendations, which humanity is accustomed to listening to. Thus, at the very start of the pandemic, when closing the borders with China could sharply curb the scale of the tragedy (or localize it altogether), WHO officials called not to do this, to allow tourists from China to all countries and not to provoke “inequality.”

The borders were still closed, but already when the pandemic began to spread throughout the world. Immediately thereafter, WHO recognized the correctness of the border closure. Then for months, WHO experts assured that healthy people do not need medical masks. When the opposite was proved (and again, through the fault of the initial recommendations, millions were infected), WHO again advised everyone to wear masks, without exception.

For a long time, WHO has advised almost all countries of the world to close on strict quarantine, which supposedly softens the development of the pandemic. And now the chief epidemiologist of the organization, Maria Van Kerkhove, announced the inadmissibility of quarantines during the second and subsequent waves of COVID-19. It turns out that the economic consequences of quarantine are dire and far outweigh the medical conditional gain.

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And secondly, according to the same experts, wearing masks and maintaining social distance is quite sufficient during this pandemic. Even UN chief Antonio Guterres called the closure of schools during quarantine a “catastrophe.” There is nothing to say about the hundreds of thousands who died from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, the consequences of physical inactivity for children and pensioners, failure to treat hundreds of serious illnesses, depression, stress, unemployment, chaos, social conflicts and the like. According to him, this is what will have to be dealt with for many years after the end of the pandemic.

Maria Van Kerkhove said that wearing masks and maintaining social distance would be sufficient measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. News.Ru.

On August 1, the World Health Organization confirmed at its session that COVID-19 continues to represent a public health emergency of international concern.

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