A RECENT opinion piece by the director-general of the World Health Organisation’s special envoy on Covid-19 is sending shock waves among governments around the world.
In it, Dr David Nabarro emphasised the need to adopt a middle path approach that balances controlling the spread of the disease while allowing people to carry on working and living. A test-trace-isolate-protect approach combined with public health services working to disrupt transmission rather than dependence on lockdowns were key to successful Covid-19 responses, he says, and cautions that lockdowns by themselves do not lead to elimination of the disease.
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