A top WHO official says that mask mandates and social distancing should continue indefinitely in order to protect against new variants of COVID-19.
The comments were made on Sky News by Special Envoy on Covid for the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr David Nabarro.
Nabarro suggested that there would be a long list of mutations of the Indian variant which would in some cases evade the protection offered by vaccines.
âWe will go from Delta to Lambda and then on to the other Greek letters, thatâs inevitable, and some of these variants will be troublesome,â he said.
âThat issue of variants is what we are watching all over the world.â
WHO Special Envoy, Dr David Nabarro says variants of the virus will keep on coming and some âwill be troublesomeâ for vaccine protection.#KayBurley
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âIâm basically saying variants are going to go on coming. Thatâs part of life, we need to pick them up fast, we need to move quickly if we see them in a certain location, we need to build the management of variants into what we call our Covid-ready strategy, which is going to be the pattern for the foreseeable future,â he added.
According to Nabarro, mask mandates and social distancing need to remain in place for the foreseeable future âas part of our defenseâ against COVID, particularly in regions which have high infection rates.
As we highlighted earlier, England is set to drop all face mask rules on July 19 after it was revealed that they were having a massive negative impact on businesses and wiping billions off the economy.
Several government advisers have called for coronavirus restrictions to continue forever, not just to defend against COVID, but also to fight influenza.
Former Communist Party member and SAGE adviser Susan Michie said earlier this month that mask mandates and social distancing should continue âforeverâ and that people should adopt such behavior just as they did with wearing seatbelts.
It never ends.