WHO: “This Is Not the Second Infection Wave We Have Not Yet Coped with the First One”

Fears of a second wave of infection and COVID-19 disease forced the Chinese authorities to close six major food markets in Beijing on Friday. Meanwhile, India, which began to lift restrictions this week, informed record in daily increase of infected people. In the United States, several states have announced the rapid patients flow to their hospitals. This is the chronicle of the last days as Reuters informed. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over. At a press conference on Friday, WHO head Tedros Gebreyesus noted that as quarantine measures are relaxed many countries will inevitably face new foci of infection - as is already happening in South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Iran and some others. According to Mike Ryan, the leading WHO emergency expert, the poorer countries of the “global South” - Africa, Latin America, South Asia - are far from completely defeating the pandemic. According to Ryan, "this is not the second wave of infection, we have not yet fully managed the first." WHO representatives believe that the poorest countries need international assistance to prevent economic collapse. In particular, we can talk about programs for restructuring or writing off foreign debt of a number of African states.