Covid lockdowns are cost of self-isolation failures, says WHO expert
by Sarah Boseley Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#59TY0)
Dr Margaret Harris said high price' of lockdowns must buy time to improve test and trace
Lockdowns affecting entire populations is a price countries pay for failing to ensure people with coronavirus and their contacts self-isolate, according to an expert from the World Health Organization.
The WHO does not recommend that countries enter lockdowns. It has consistently said that the key to controlling epidemics, whether Covid-19, Sars or flu, is to test people, trace their contacts and ensure all those who are positive or who have been close to those infected are quarantined.
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