Speed up vaccination, use strict measures to prevent another surge: WHO to Southeast Asian countries


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The World Health Organization on Sunday urged Southeast Asian countries to speed up Covid-19 vaccination and rigorously implement public health measures to prevent another surge in cases. Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director, WHO South-East Asia, said these measures needed to be enforced for longer durations, considering that more transmissible “Variants of Concern” were spreading in several countries. “We need to continuously strengthen our efforts to test, trace and isolate,” Singh said. “Societal interventions such as physical distancing, hand hygiene and proper wearing of masks needs to be stringently implemented.” Singh added that public health and social measures were cost-effective...