Governments should consider reintroducing Covid protection measures amid a global “increasing trend of deaths” from the virus, a World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has warned.
A growing number of first world countries have all but abandoned measures such as face masks and ventilation following successful rollouts of the Covid vaccine.
However, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the pandemic is “nowhere near over” in a global sense, the Mirror reports.