Director of the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, is advising Caribbean countries against removing COVID-19 control measures too early.
“The social and economic pressure we are seeing now will be even greater if we fail to contain the virus, if we remove control measures prematurely and then overwhelm our health system’s capacity. We must all continue to act aggressively to contain the spread,” she said.
She was giving an update of the COVID situation in the Americas from Washington D.C. yesterday morning, via the online platform Kudo.
Etienne urged all countries to think locally as this was the best way to combat the virus. (RA)
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