The new coronavirus pandemic which has infected over 16 million individuals is the worst global health emergency the World Health Organization (WHO) has confronted, its own director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

Just with rigorous adherence to health measures, from wearing masks to avoiding crowds, would the planet figure out how to conquer it, Tedros inserted at a digital reality briefing in Geneva.

"Where these measures are followed, instances return. Where they aren't, instances go up," he said, '' said Canada, China, Germany and South Korea for controlling outbreaks.

Resurgences of their coronavirus in a variety of regions, including where nations thought they had controlled the disease, are alarming the world, with deaths nearing 650,000.

WHO disasters programme mind Mike Ryan stated a lot more important than definitions of next waves, new peaks and apocalyptic clusters, was the demand for nations around the world to keep up strict health restrictions like physical distancing.

"What's clear is pressure on the virus compels the numbers down. Release that strain and cases creep upward," he said, acknowledging, however, that it had been practically impossible for countries to continue to keep borders closed for the foreseeable future.

"We have to suppress transmission but in precisely the same time we have to recognize the vulnerable classes and rescue lives, keeping the death rates if possible to zero, if not to the very least," he said, '' said Japan and Australia in this respect.