Coronavirus: Countries exiting lockdown too soon is a 'recipe for disaster', WHO warns

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a stark warning for countries heading out of lockdown too soon. Eight months into the coronavirus pandemic, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus​ has acknowledged people’s longing for normality to return. At a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday, the director-general said WHO fully supported the efforts to reopen economies and societies, but they wanted to see it done safely. “No country can just pretend the pandemic is over,” he said.