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Head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned against deliberately allowing coronavirus to spread in the hope of achieving the so-called herd immunity, saying the idea is unethical.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n During a virtual press briefing late Monday, Tedros said “herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it.” He also explained that “herd immunity is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic,” Tedros further said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n COVID-19 has killed well over one million people and has infected more than 37 million since it first surfaced in China late last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He pointed out that it has been estimated that less than 10% of the population in most countries are believed to have contracted the disease, noting that letting the virus circulate unchecked therefore means allowing unnecessary infections, suffering and death.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alshaheen News Head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned against deliberately allowing coronavirus to spread in the hope of achieving the so-called herd immunity, saying the idea is unethical. During a virtual press briefing late Monday, Tedros said “herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arab-and-international"],"yoast_head":"\n