The World Health Organization warned the world on Friday against lifting the restrictions imposed to curb the outbreak of the Corona virus, stressing that ending quarantine may lead to a "lethal" return to the virus. The organization's statements coincided with Italy's announcement to extend the closing procedures that were due to end on 13 April to 3 May.
With the global economy beginning to be affected by the quarantine imposed on most of the major countries and others, the World Health Organization called on countries on Friday to be cautious about lifting the restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the Corona virus, and also warned that the situation is getting worse in Africa.
The organization's director general, Tedros Adhanom Gebresos, told a news conference that the organization would like to see the restrictions loosened, but at the same time, "lifting the restrictions could lead to a deadly return" to the virus.
He added that there is a "slowdown" in the spread of the epidemic in some European countries, especially Italy, Germany, Spain and France, but there is a "worrying acceleration" in the spread in other countries, and this includes community infection in 16 African countries.
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Tedros said the Geneva-based organization had received reports of 1.5 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 disease caused by the virus and more than 92,000 deaths.
Italy extends isolation measures
Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Friday refused to submit to business pressure and decided to extend the closing procedures that expire on April 13 to May 3.
Conte’s decision came after the death toll from his country’s official death toll from the new, deadly Corona Virus jumped to 18,849 after 570 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.
Italy recorded a greater death toll than any other country, but the daily death rate is now lower than it was a few weeks ago.
Italian media reported that business associations in the regions responsible for about 45 percent of Italy's production, in which about 80 percent of deaths were attributed to the Covid-19 epidemic, sent a letter to Conte warning him of its inability to pay salaries if the closure continued.
But Conte said that Italy could not tolerate another increase in infections and needed to exercise maximum caution in dealing with the deadly epidemic.
"All of us, I think, have run out of our patience to continue life again," he said in a televised address.
He added that extending the closing period for another three weeks "is a difficult but necessary decision, and I bear full political responsibility for it."
Conte's decision came after consultations with scientists and representatives of various trade unions that saw conflicting visions and ideas coming out.
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