Geneva: The Head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that 90 million cases of Coronavirus have been reported since the omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago – of more than 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
With many countries that loosen the tight steps in the midst of public fatigue about them, the Director General of Tedros Adhanon Ghebreeus warned that Omicron should not be underestimated even though it has been shown to bring less severe diseases than the previous variants – and quoted “a very worrying increase in most The world area is ” Ordinary people who give direction to the pandemic.
“Nothing can be further than the truth,” Tedros added.
“It’s preterm that any country is good to give up or declare victory.
This virus is dangerous and continues to develop before our eyes.” Who said four out of six regions around the world saw an increasing trend in death.
Many European countries have begun to relieve locking steps, including Britain, France, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Finland will end the restriction of Covid-19 this month.
On Tuesday, the Danish government canceled most of the boundaries aimed at fighting a pandemic, saying it no longer considers Covid-19 “social critical illness”.
The nation of 5.8 million has been in the past few weeks see more than 50,000 new cases a day, but the number of patients in intensive care units has declined.
“Now it’s not the time to lift all at once.
We are always urgent – always urged – be careful in applying interventions and raising these interventions stably and slowly,” said Maria van Kerkhove, who leads technically in Covid-19.
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Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergency head, said the countries with higher vaccination rates “have more choices” about whether it will facilitate their limits, but told them EY must assess factors such as their current epidemiology, risky population , Immunity in the population, and access to health care tools to fight a pandemic.
Speaking to the governments of the countries, he said: “Every country must find feet, know where it is, know where he wants to go, and map the lane …
You can see what other countries do.
But please don’t just Following blind what every country does.
“Ryan expressed concern that” political pressure will produce people in several countries that open prematurely – and it will produce unnecessary transmissions, unnecessary bad diseases, and unnecessary deaths.
” Meanwhile, Van Kerkhove also said a group of experts founded last year to see the emergence of new pathogens such as Coronavirus – and assess the origin – is expected to issue a report “in the coming weeks”.
He said the group, known as Sago Sakar, has held about half a dozen meetings since the first at the end of November.
He said the group would, among others, saw the initial epidemiological study and “our current understanding of the origin of this particular pandemic, built a previous mission who had gone to China and worked with Chinese scientists”.
He offended the work of the team led by other people traveling to China, where the pandemic first appeared, and reported the outbreak in March last year.
In 10 weeks, the omicron surge causes a Covid case to soar: who
