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LOCAL LOCKDOWN: COUNTRY TO BE DIVIDED INTO TIERED RISK AREAS Dr David Nabarro, the WHO's special envoy on COVID-19, has urged world leaders to stop “using lockdowns as your primary
control method” of the global health crisis. He warned the only thing lockdowns achieve is poverty - with no mention of the potential lives they can save. The expert said: “Lockdowns just
have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer. “We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary
means of control of this virus. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are
exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.” Dr Nabarro's main criticism of enforcing national lockdowns is the huge impact it has on poorer countries around the world. He
continued in an interview with The Spectator: "Just look at what’s happened to the tourism industry in the Caribbean, for example, or in the Pacific because people aren’t taking their
holidays. The WHO has backtracked on coronavirus lockdown advice (Image: GETTY) Dr David Nabarra has urged world leaders not to enfirce more lockdowns (Image: GETTY) “Look what’s happened to
smallholder farmers all over the world. Look what’s happening to poverty levels. "It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a
doubling of child malnutrition.” National lockdowns became a regular feature earlier this year, with countries desperately trying to curb and control the rapid spread of coronavirus. Some
nations enforced stricter measures than others - in Spain, people were only allowed to leave their house to walk their pet while in China, authorities even welded doors shut to stop
residents from leaving their homes. READ MORE: CORONAVIRUS MAP LIVE: UK SPLIT IN THREE IN HUGE LOCKDOWN MOVE TODAY Coronavirus lockdowns have been in place across several countries (Image:
GETTY) RELATED ARTICLES The WHO now claims these steps were largely unnecessary, with Dr Nabarro suggesting a new strategy for containing the spread of coronavirus. He said: "We really
do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method. Develop better systems for doing it. Work together and learn from each other.” Last week, several health
experts came together to call for an end to coronavirus lockdowns by creating a petition called the Great Barrington Declaration, which said the strict measures were doing “irreparable
damage". The petition, which has had more than 12,000 signatures and was authored by Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, and Martin
Kulldorff of Harvard University. DON'T MISS CORONAVIRUS HOTSPOTS MAPPED: WHICH AREAS SEEING COVID 'HEAT UP'? [MAP] NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALS: WHICH HOSPITALS ARE PREPARING FOR
SECOND WAVE? [ANALYSIS] POLL: SHOULD SHAMELESS SCOTTISH MP RESIGN AFTER BREAKING RULES [POLL] Some of the world's biggest cities were placed in lockdown (Image: GETTY) Boris Johnson is
desperately trying to slow the spread of coronavirus in England (Image: GETTY) It says: “As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the
damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.” But the latest warning from the WHO and global medical
experts comes as Mr Johnson announces strict new measures across several areas of England where there has been a significant spike in coronavirus cases. The Prime Minister has announced a
three-tier system of local lockdown restrictions for England, which will see different parts of the country split up into "medium", "high" or "very high" local
coronavirus alert areas. Tier one restrictions will be baseline restrictions in place throughout the country, including the hospitality sector closing at 10pm and a ban on most gatherings of
more than six people. RELATED ARTICLES The second tier of restrictions will be rules currently in place throughout much of the North East, where indoor mixing of households is not allowed.
Residents living in areas under the third tier will have to avoid all non-essential travel and not travel between areas. Bars, restaurants, clubs and cafes may have to close. Schools and
places of worship are likely to remain open, but gyms, beauty salons and hairdressers may be among venues that could be shut down by local authorities. Earlier today, Mr Johnson chaired a
meeting of the Government's COBR committee to finalise what will be announced in the House of Commons. He is then holding a press conference from Downing Street from 6pm and will be
joined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak and England's Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty.