Countries across the world must take a comprehensive approach to fighting the pandemic of COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus and isolate, test and trace as many cases as possible, the World Health Organization says.
"To suppress and control the epidemic, countries must isolate, test, treat and trace," the WHO's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing.
"If they don't, transmission chains can continue at a low level and then resurface once physical distancing measures are lifted," he added. He said the test and trace strategy "must be the backbone of the response in every country".
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