New Covid alert from WHO with advice for all holidaymakers

A woman going on holiday wearing a Covid mask (Image: Getty) The World Health Organisation has warned that anyone planning on going on a summer holiday this year should take Covid precautions - including a vaccine, mask and testing. The WHO has issued a fresh warning over Covid , telling people not to forget that the disease is still widespread and deadly, killing 1,700 people every week across the globe. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that vaccine coverage is dangerously declining among the over-60s and health workers, two of the groups most at risk of dying from Covid .

Some hospitals in the UK have brought back mandatory mask wearing and some are asking people with Covid symptoms, who do not need medical care, to stay away. In France, the Tour de France has made masks mandatory for anyone coming into contact with competitors or teams after a number of Covid cases. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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