GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedro Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday warned the world about the ‘initial stage’ third wave Covid-19 third amid a surge in delta.
“Unfortunately …
we are now in the early stages of the third wave”, he said.
On Wednesday, the Head of WHO said that the distribution of Delta variants, along with increased social mobility and the use of inconsistent public health measures, encouraged an increase in the number of cases and deaths.
Given the sustainable decline in the Covid-19 case and deaths are encouraged, in the past few months, by increasing the level of vaccination in Europe and North America, he sounded alarm for the fresh reversal of the positive trend, reported the United Nations news.
Meanwhile, said Tedro, the virus continued to evolve, producing a variant that was more transmitting.
“The Delta variant is now in more than 111 countries and we hope it will soon become the dominant Covid-19 tension circulating throughout the world if not,” he said.
Last week marked the fourth consecutive week of increasing Covid-19 cases globally, with an increase recorded in all but one of the six regions.
Death also increased again, after 10 weeks of a steady decline.
Tedro also draws an emergency committee at Covid-19’s attention to “surprising disparity” that is ongoing in the global vaccine distribution, as well as unequal access to the saving tool, reporting the United Nations.
He stressed his concern that injustice had created a two-track pandemic – that is, one lane for countries with the biggest access to the vaccine, which raised restrictions and reopens their communities, and the second lane for those who do not have the remaining vaccine access “in the Rahmat Virus .
“Many countries still have not received vaccines, and most have not received enough.
Tedros reiterated who filed a big boost to vaccinate at least 10 percent of the population of each country in September, at least 40 percent at the end of 2021, and at least 70 percent in mid 2022.
emphasized that the vaccine would not stop the pandemic, he asked for countries To survive with “customized and consistent approach”.
This means using the full arrangement of the entire public and social health available and taking a comprehensive risk management approach for mass meetings.
“So many countries in the world have shown that this virus can be stopped and contained with these steps,” he stressed.
To provide support, which recently issued updated guidelines to facilitate a risk-based approach to opening.
The body also reviews the options for digitizing international certificates for vaccination and prophylaxis, to support a harmonious approach to record vaccination status, reporting UN news.
Who warns ‘early stages’ third wave Covid-19
