Indications of expectation are beginning to appear in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, however it added that nations must keep on dealing with avoidance measures to restrain the spread of the new coronavirus.

While cases are "still quickly ascending" in numerous areas of the world, there are "green shoots of expectation", the WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in online media instructions.

Tedros likewise said it was "extremely welcome news" that the underlying consequences of a clinical preliminary had demonstrated that a modest, basic steroid known as dexamethasone can help spare basically sick patients.

Preliminary outcomes reported on Tuesday by specialists in Britain demonstrated dexamethasone, utilized since the 1960s to decrease aggravation in maladies, for example, joint inflammation, cut passing rates by around a third among the most seriously sick COVID-19 patients admitted to the emergency clinic.