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Urgent need to scale-up public health, social measures to curtail spread, says WHO
The Free Press Journal | 18/12/2021 03:35 PM | Click to read full article
With seven countries in the South-East Asia Region confirming cases of new COVID-19 variant Omicron, the World Health Organization on Saturday stressed on urgent scale-up of public health and social measures to curtail its further spread.
Countries can and must prevent the spread of Omicron with proven health and social measures, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, Poonam Khetrapal Singh said.
