Coronavirus pandemic ‘a long way from over’: WHO

World Health Organization chief says transmission driven by ‘complacency and inconsistency in public health measures’.

Confusion and complacency in addressing COVID-19 mean the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control in months with proven public health measures, the head of the World Health Organization has said. “We, too, want to see societies and economies reopening, and travel and trade resuming,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing on Monday. “But right now, intensive care units in many countries are overflowing and people are dying – and it’s totally avoidable.