Dubai: The Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that with the onset of winter, cases of Corona Virus infection are increasing rapidly in the whole of West Asia and Countries need to tighten sanctions and take precautionary measures to prevent large numbers of deaths from infection.
Ahmed Al Mandhari, WHO’s director of the Eastern Mediterranean region, told reporters in Cairo that countries in the region had imposed strict lockdowns earlier this year but we’re now slowing down. He said that the basic measures to avoid the epidemic – from following social distances to applying masks “are not being fully followed in our region.” And this has resulted in hospitals across the region. Are full of patients.
The regional director said that in the last nine months, more than 36 lakh people have fallen ill and more than 76 thousand people have died in the region due to the infection, and the same number of lives are at stake. He appealed for precautionary measures to prevent the estimates being made about the number of Kovid patients from becoming a reality.
