World Health Organization (WHO) Director General of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreedreyesus on Thursday said that the more contagious omicron variants of Coronavirus seem to produce less severe diseases than the dominant Delta tensions, but should not be categorized as “light”
Overcoming press direction, the head of the global health agency also repeated its calls for greater equity globally in distribution and access to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Based on the current level of the launch of the Covid-19 vaccine, 109 countries will lose the WHO target for 70% of the world’s population to be fully vaccinated in July, added Tedro. The goal was seen as helping to end the acute phase of Pandemi.
Who’s head in iHU
Another variant – labeled as IHU and was first registered on September 2021 – was among those monitored by WHO but did not circulate widely, said The Who’s Technical Lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove.
There are two other significant significant categories used to track the variant of “caring variant”, which includes deltas and omicrons, and “variant variants”.
Speaking at the same briefing from Geneva, who’s adviser Bruce Aylward said 36 countries had not even reached 10 percent vaccination cover. Among severe patients throughout the world, 80 percent were not vaccinated, he added.
Who also said that the number of new Covid-19 cases increased exponentially 71 percent globally during the week of December 27-2 compared to the previous week, while the number of new deaths declined 10 percent.
Weekly Covid-19 epidemiology update, which was released by the global health agency, said that during the week of December 27 to January 2, after a gradual increase since October, the number of new global cases increased sharply by 71% compared to the previous week.
The number of new deaths decreases by 10%. This is in accordance with only below 9.5 million new cases and more than 41,000 new deaths reported during last week. On January 2, a total of nearly 289 million cases and more than 5.4 million deaths had been reported globally, said the renewal by the World Health Organization.
It was said that all regions reported an increase in the incidence of weekly cases, with the American region reported the biggest increase (100%), followed by Southeast Asia (78%), Europe (65%), eastern Mediterranean (40%), West Pacific (38%) and African region (7%).