The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of easing coronavirus restrictions over Christmas if authorities do not have the infection process fully under control.
„If people become infected with one another and if a country does not have the necessary infrastructure to pursue cases and isolate contacts and quarantine them, loosening will lead to more contagion,“ said WHO emergency aid coordinator Mike Ryan last night in Geneva .
Governments need to be aware that they can only weigh risks. There is no scientific formula as to which easing is justifiable and how many holidays are safe without major conditions. „There’s just a higher and lower risk that the situation will get better or worse,“ he said.
Governments would have to weigh the risks of the virus spreading further with the economic and social risks of maintaining restrictions. If people are not allowed to meet over the holidays, there is great frustration, CoV fatigue and possibly resistance to the measures, he admitted.
