NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday called upon nations in its own south-west Asia area to scale public health infrastructure, so rigorously execute social activities and also make attempts to quicken vaccination to protect against yet another Covid-19 surge.
Last week, Maldives and Myanmar verified the transmission of coronavirus versions of concern.
Earlier, variations of concern are validated in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and also Timor-Leste, the international health body said.
The coronavirus variations of concern together with the introduction of markets and societies led to the current surge in cases internationally.
“We will need to constantly strengthen our attempts to examine, isolate and trace.
Physical distancing, hand hygiene and appropriate wearing of masks will need to be stringently applied.
“These steps must be in full power and also for longer intervals in regions reporting more transmissible versions of issues,” said Poonam Khetrapal Singh, the Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia.
Even as states scale vaccination against Covid-19, they have to execute public health and societal activities in a compassionate and tailored fashion, ” she explained.
Singh, in a statement,” said a risk-based strategy is necessary for general health and societal activities and such measures must be put into place with the smallest administrative level and also corrected to the level of transmission and also the ability of health programs.
A range of states are at various stages in the development of the Covid-19 outbreak and also therefore are facing varying epidemiological conditions.
Although the area is currently seeing a general decrease in cases mainly because of a dip in cases in India, in several other countries are still witnessing a spike in most cases.
“We should remember that the pandemic remains about and needs to safeguard against complacency at virtually any given level.
We have to continue to execute blends of general public health and societal steps until internationally there’s high vaccine coverage on health workers, and also insecure and vulnerable groups,” Singh said in this announcement.