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‘Omikron might be less severe, but …’: Whose head has a warning

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 mo...