“We have a long road ahead of us and a lot of work to do,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva, adding that a second wave of infections could be prevented with the right actions.
He also expressed ‘concern that the health of children was being threatened by the impact of the coronavirus emergency on vaccination programmes for other diseases.’
“Children may be at relatively low risk from severe disease and death from COVID-19 - the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus - but can be at high risk from other diseases that can be prevented with vaccines.”
Read here (Reuters, April 27, 2020)
