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Daniel Morrow & Alice Peacock

Covid spike prompts health chief warning governments should 'consider reintroducing' masks and other measures

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.

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