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Mike Ryan, WHOโs top emergency expert, said that the Swiss cantons of Geneva, where the U.N. health agency is based, and the adjoining Vaud canton have โsome of the most intense transmission in the world right now.โ
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| WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday there had been 65 coronavirus infections among staff at its Geneva headquarters since the start of the pandemic and that a possible small cluster of cases was under investigation.
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead for COVID-19, said that five WHO staff members had tested positive in the past week, adding: โAll are doing well, all have had mild disease or (are) asymptomatic.โ
Mike Ryan, WHOโs top emergency expert, said that the Swiss cantons of Geneva, where the U.N. health agency is based, and the adjoining Vaud canton have โsome of the most intense transmission in the world right now.โ
โTo my knowledge the cluster being investigated is the first evidence of potential transmission on the site of WHO, but we canโt completely protect ourselves from our own social and other engagements with family and school and so many other things,โ he said.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday marked his return from quarantine after being identified as a contact of someone who tested positive for COVID-19.
โI was okay, no symptoms. Itโs day 17 now. I followed the protocols. Because of no symptoms and also the full follow-up of the protocol, I didnโt see the need for testing. I can assure you that Iโm okay and actually very, very busy,โ Tedros said.
