Tag: David Nabarro

The UK and other countries should impose moderate lockdowns this winter to stop the virus "just infecting everybody", WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19 Response Dr David Nabarro has said.

The World Health Organisation has said we are only at the "halfway mark" of the pandemic and warned against treating Covid like flu, days after the Government said it intended to do just that.

The WHO has warned the Government against lifting Plan B restrictions, calling it "unwise" – but Tory MPs disagree, saying the Government would "be mad" to keep the mask mandate in place.

Mask-wearing and social distancing should stay in place because it is "inevitable" that new Covid variants will be able to "break through the vaccine-related protection in a few people", says WHO official David Nabarro.