WHO warns Latin America against reopening too early

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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - FEBRUARY 18 : Atmosphere at World Health Organization (WHO) head office during COVID-19 coronavirus crisis on February 18, 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Footage by Vincent Isore/IP3 via Getty Images)

Latin America has started to resume normal social and public life at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic still requires major control interventions, the World Health Organization regional director Carissa Etienne said on Wednesday.

Speaking in a virtual briefing from Washington with other Pan American Health Organization directors, Etienne said coronavirus cases in Colombia’s border area with Venezuela have increased ten-fold in the last 2 weeks. Death rates are climbing in areas of Mexico, and similar trends are seen in Ecuador, Costa Rrica and Bolivia, she said.

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