Parishioners washing their arms as a preventative evaluate in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe
The Bigger Accra Divisional Head of the Ghana Medical Affiliation has encouraged the community to hardly ever ignore preventive measures set in put by the Entire world Well being Organisation to support control the distribute of Covid-19.
Dr Ernest Yorke who was speaking on the Super Early morning Present stressed that the only way to handle the distribute of the virus while living with it is to continually exercise social distancing as was carried out to control the unfold of SARS in China in 2002 and MERS in 2015.
“In 2002 there was the outbreak of SARS in China and MERS a couple decades ago, and now we have Covid-19. In all of these outbreaks of a pandemic, what controlled the ailment was preserving actual physical distancing and putting on face masks.
“That is the only way and that is the protected analyzed way of controlling a pandemic that is transmitted human to human,” the endocrinologist defined.
He appealed to the public to don’t forget to follow the evaluate amongst the many others as the government deliberates how the place would live with the virus.
“So while this discussion that is occurring now in Ghana regardless of whether to unwind or not chill out [restrictions], we must dwell with I assume we must in no way fail to remember that whatsoever the remaining determination will be from the authorities each preventive principle have to continue to be – sustaining actual physical distancing, the hand hygiene and the sporting of encounter masks.”
