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WHO Hopes ‘Aggressive’ Surveillance Will Contain Coronavirus Outbreak – Official

© AFP 2023 / FABRICE COFFRINIA photo taken on 24 February 2020 shows the logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. - Fears of a global coronavirus pandemic deepened on Monday as new deaths and infections in Europe, the Middle East and Asia triggered more drastic efforts to stop people travelling.
A photo taken on 24 February 2020 shows the logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. - Fears of a global coronavirus pandemic deepened on Monday as new deaths and infections in Europe, the Middle East and Asia triggered more drastic efforts to stop people travelling. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The World Health Organisation welcomes active surveillance of potential coronavirus patients, the executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme said Friday.
"We commend the move towards more aggressive, targeted surveillance and we hope that that will lead to the kind of control measures that will help push this virus back", Mike Ryan told reporters.

He warned countries against adopting tit-for-tat travel restrictions after South Korea said it would respond with countermeasures to Japan’s decision to quarantine its visitors starting Monday.

"We have been pretty clear on the issue of travel restrictions for a long time: they should be very carefully considered, they should be public health evidence-driven, they should be of short duration", he said.

Ryan admitted that there was a long history of countries trading travel bans, but the practice has been largely abandoned after WHO began challenging nations on the measures they took to contain epidemics.

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