8. You are Ravi/Ravina, a resident of Adarsh Colony, New Delhi. You have
noticed that many people have become careless and are not following
rules laid out by the government for COVID-19 pandemic. Write a letter to
the editor. Times of India, drawing attention towards the same. Explain
how such acts impact the health of the community and request
immediate intervention and strict action.
Answers
Answer:
The World Health Organization on Thursday warned that spikes in coronavirus transmission in a number of countries were being driven by young people "letting down their guard".
"Young people are not invincible," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva.
While the pandemic, which has killed more than 17 million people worldwide, has disproportionately impacted the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions, he stressed that "younger people are at risk too".
He lamented that a major challenge in trying to rein in the novel coronavirus was "convincing younger people of this risk".
He said there was evidence that "spikes of cases in some countries are being driven in part by younger people letting down their guard during the northern hemisphere summer."
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