Mike Ryan, director of emergencies at the World Health Organization, noted that there is no evidence of “ineffectiveness” of current vaccines against Omicron, and that if necessary, work is already underway in the event that Omicron vaccines are needed.
“Right now, we have very effective vaccines,” Ryan said. “We need to focus on distributing them more equitably. We need to focus on getting the most at-risk groups vaccinated.”
The organization said earlier today that it was still studying the transmissibility and severity of the new mutant.
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As for the chief scientist of the World Health Organization, she urged people, on Friday, to avoid panic after the emergence of the Omicron mutant from the Corona virus, saying that it was too early to confirm whether vaccines need to be modified.
During an interview at the Reuters Next conference, Somya Swaminathan said it was “impossible” to predict whether Omicron will become the dominant strain.
Omicron established itself in Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe, reaching seven of the nine provinces in South Africa where it was first discovered. Many governments have tightened travel restrictions to keep out its danger.
Swaminathan said Omicron was “quickly contagious”, citing data from South Africa that cases were doubling daily.
“How anxious can we be? We need to be prepared and be careful, not panic, because we are in a different situation than we were a year ago,” she added.
She went on to say that the mutated version “Delta is responsible for 99 percent of infections in the world. This version is more transmissible and dominant to become the (version) prevailing around the world. This is a possible (scenario), but it is not possible to predict its occurrence.”
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