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Latin America has started to resume normal social and public life at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic still requires major control interventions, World Health Organization regional director Carissa Etienne said on Wednesday.
Coronavirus cases in Colombia’s border area with Venezuela have increased ten-fold in the last two weeks, Etienne said in a virtual briefing from Washington with other Pan American Health Organization directors.
Although the entire world is racing to develop new tools to prevent and cure Covid-19, a safe and effective vaccine that can be manufactured and delivered at scale is not around the corner.
We must be clear that opening up too early gives this virus more room to spread and puts our populations at greater risk. Look no further than Europe.
Hello and welcome to today’s live coronavirus coverage.
My name is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be bringing you the latest for the next few hours. As always, it would be great to hear from you. Send news from your part of the world and jokes that are universal to me on Twitter @helenrsullivan or email: [email protected].
