Geneva: Director General of the World Health Organization on Monday warned that the conditions remain ideal for more variants of Coronavirus to appear and dangerous to assume Omicron is the last or “we are at Endgame.” But Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the acute phase of Pandemi could still end this year if some of the main targets were fulfilled.
Tedros puts various achievements and concerns in global health for problems such as reducing tobacco use, against resistance to anti-microbial care, and the risk of climate change on human health.
But he said “ End the acute phase of pandemic must remain our collective priority.
“There are various scenarios for how the pandemic can play and how the acute phase can end.
But it is dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant or that we are in Endgame,” Tedros to the beginning of the WHO executive board meeting this week.
“On the contrary, globally, the condition is ideal for more variants.” But he insisted that “we can end Covid-19 as a global health emergency, and we can do it this year,” by achieving a goal like who the target is to vaccinate 70% of the population of each country in the middle of this year, with focusing on people The highest risk of Covid-19, and increases the level of testing and sequencing to track viruses and variants that appear closer.
Omicron tends to cause severe illness than the previous Delta variant, according to research.
Omicron spreads easier than other Coronavirus strains, and has become dominant in many countries.
It is also easier to infect those who have been vaccinated or previously infected by the previous version of the virus.
“It is true that we will live with Covid for the future and we need to learn to manage it through a sustainable and integrated system for acute respiratory disease” to help prepare for future pandemics, said Tedro.
“But learning to live with Covid cannot mean that we give this virus freely.
It cannot mean that we receive nearly 50,000 deaths a week from a disease that can be prevented and can be treated.” In the term Stark, Tedros also asks for strengthening and increase funds to help prevent health crises.
“Let me put it clearly: if the current funding model continues, who is formed to fail,” he said.
`Slide the paradigm in the health of the world needed now must be matched by a paradigm shift in funding the World Health Organization.
“The head of the Who’s European Region, Dr.
Hans Kluge, said separately in the statement that Omicron“ offered reasonable hope for stabilization and normalization, ” but warned: “Our work is not done.” He mentioned the signs that the new variant had been Proven to bring diseases that are less severe, even if it is more contagious.
He regrets the “big gap”.
In access to vaccines, and echoing concerns from other officials whose areas where less immunized people can allow the virus to adapt _ and may lead to a new variant .
Kluge offers a more hopeful record, even if he says “it’s almost like a new Covid-19 variant it will appear and return.
“He said that practices such as strong supervision from new variants, high vaccination absorption, regular ventilation in the room, fair access to affordable to antivirus drugs, targeted testing, masks.
G and physical distance,” if and when The new variant appeared, I believe that new waves no longer need the return to the pandemic-era population lock or similar steps, “he said.