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Gov’t relaxes restrictions! But WHO, health experts warn: ‘Not so soon’.
Gov’t relaxes restrictions! But WHO, health experts warn: ‘Not so soon’.
The priority given by government to communicating on the recovery cases from COVID-19, rather than the rising cases presaged an eventual relaxation of restrictions. So when Prime Minister Dion Ngute announced an end to the 6 pm curfew and discontinuation of the restriction of the number of places in buses, taxis and bikes, it came as no surprise to observers.
The PM said the measures had brought hard times for especially the tourism industry and so it was necessary to give them a lifeline while maintaining measures like wearing of masks, washing of hands with soap and social distancing.
The PM then announced some tax exemptions and moratoria for the payment of social insurance contributions, to the delight of the private sector. But the 19 points read out by the PM fell short a real stimulus package as has been offered by some nations with the same level of development as Cameroon.
Reacting to these restrictions, the WHO said it was too soon.
”...If governments abruptly end these measures, they risk losing the gains that have been made so far against Covid-19,” Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO regional director for Africa, warned in a statement Thursday on twitter.
Even some Cameroonian health experts like immunologist, Prof. Mbacham Wilfred, said it would have made sense to wait until June, given that the curve of infection was in the ascendant. He told CRTV’s Press Hour yesterday that given that even the measures of wearing a mask and social distancing were only about 30 percent effective, there was a risk of the curve still rising.
Denying that he was a prophet of doom, he warned of the 1720 Great Plague of Marseille scenario gripping Cameroon with many deaths should we prioritise economic recovery over saving human lives (See explanation of 1720 Great Plague of Marseille elsewhere).