World Health Organization’s Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said on Wednesday that there is a “very real risk” of a second wave of the coronavirus as the transmission of the disease is likely to spread as countries lift lockdowns.
“We don’t know if it will be a second wave, a second peak or a continuing first wave in some countries, it (the infection rate) really hasn’t come down that much at the time of reopening and so all of these possibilities are very real,” Dr. Swaminathan told CNBC.
The expert warned that the virus is “very nasty” and transmission is likely to restart as people start “mixing again” unless “it’s gone down to such a low level in a place where it’s very, very rare to have the infection in the community.”
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