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Alice Peacock & Aaron Morris

Covid pandemic 'nowhere near over' says health chief as he urges masks to be brought back

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging governments around the world to reinstate Coronavirus-restricting measures such as masks and ventilation, as its leader speaks of concerns regarding an 'increasing trend of deaths'.

While the British government, as well as many others of wealthy countries, have dropped restrictions, the WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus claims that the pandemic is 'nowhere near over'.

This comes after new figures from the Office for National Statistics today show more than 200,000 people in the UK have had Coronavirus recorded on their death certificate since the rapidly-spreading pandemic of 2020 began.

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