Russia Today, Russia’s state-funded broadcaster, reported on the WHO finding’s that their efforts to stem the spread of Covid-19 in the country appear to have, to day, proved very successful:
Dr. Melita Vujnovic, the World Health Organization’s representative in Russia, discusses the low number of coronavirus cases in Russia and the government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
“The director-general of WHO said ‘test, test, test,'” Dr. Melita Vujnovic told CNN Thursday. “Well, Russia started that literally at the end of January.”
Vujnovic said Russia also took a broader set of measures in addition to testing.
“Testing and identification of cases, tracing contacts, isolation, these are all measures that WHO proposes and recommends, and they were in place all the time,” she said. “And the social distancing is the second component that really also started relatively early.”
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On the face of it, based on this report, Russia appears to be following the very aggressive processes which proved so effective in South Korea and Singapore -and latterly in China – as opposed to the relaxed attitude initially displayed in the UK, USA, Italy, France, and Spain, where the numbers of infections and deaths are growing at an alarming rate.