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Stop using lockdowns to fight virus, says World Health Organisation

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/stop-using-lockdowns-to-fight-virus-says-world-health-organisation/news-story/97938c45a7b761644fc1e134b7b10548

A special adviser to the World Health Organisation has urged governments not to use lockdowns as their primary method of controlling the spread of COVID-19, saying strict restrictions had a dramatic negative ­effect on lives.

David Nabarro, the WHO’s coronavirus special envoy, said lockdowns “just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle — and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer”.

“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted — but by and large, we’d rather not do it,” he said.