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Covid-19: contact case, the boss of the WHO is in quarantine

2020-11-02T07:32:51.616Z


The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has no symptoms.The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is in quarantine because of the Covid-19 pandemic. He announced that he had been in contact with a person who tested positive. “I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19. I'm fine and symptom-free, but I'm going to quarantine myself over the next few days, in line with WHO protocols, and work at


The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is in quarantine because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

He announced that he had been in contact with a person who tested positive.

“I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19.

I'm fine and symptom-free, but I'm going to quarantine myself over the next few days, in line with WHO protocols, and work at home, ”tweeted Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for # COVID19.

I am well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine over the coming days, in line with @WHO protocols, and work from home.

- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 1, 2020

“It is extremely important that we all comply with health guidelines.

This is how we will break the chains of transmission of # COVID19, remove the virus and protect health systems, ”he added.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been at the forefront of the United Nations health agency's initiatives to fight the pandemic, which has claimed the lives of nearly 1.2 million people and infected more than 46 million people worldwide since the new coronavirus appeared in China at the end of 2019.

In early October, he vigorously defended the work carried out by the organization, accused in particular by US President Donald Trump of incompetence in its management of the pandemic.

Hand washing, mask and physical distance

Ethiopia's 55-year-old former health and foreign minister has reiterated for months that everyone has a role to play in stopping the spread of the virus.

WHO urges everyone to pay attention to hand washing, mask wearing and physical distancing, while calling on authorities to work to detect, isolate, test and treat cases of contamination, then trace and put in preventive quarantine their contacts.

The fact that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus himself was forced into quarantine due to possible exposure to the virus could lead to further attacks on the WHO and the measures it recommends.

Outbursts of anger are appearing in several European countries as the Old Continent adopts restrictions going as far as containment in an attempt to stem the second wave of the epidemic.

More than 279,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Europe.

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Geneva, Switzerland, where the WHO is headquartered, declared a new state of emergency on Sunday and said the city would go beyond national measures, closing all non-essential bars, restaurants and shops.

Authorities in the region, which has a population of around 500,000, said the new measures are needed due to the surge in cases (with more than 1,000 positive daily tests in recent days) and increasing numbers of patients. with Covid-19 in hospitals and emergency care units.

Source: leparis

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