The simultaneous circulation of Delta and Ômicron variants of the coronavirus is creating a “tsunami of cases”, said the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a press conference on Wednesday (29).
“I am very concerned that Ômicron, being highly transmissible and spreading at the same time as Delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. This is and will continue to put immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems on the brink of collapse,” said Tedros.
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The WHO director-general repeated his call for countries to share vaccines more equitably and warned that an emphasis on boosting in richer countries could leave poorer nations without vaccines.
He said WHO is campaigning for all countries to reach the target of 70% immunization coverage by mid-2022, which would help end the acute phase of the pandemic.
New Year’s Eve will mark China’s second anniversary by alerting WHO to 27 cases of “viral pneumonia” of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan.
Since then, more than 283 million people have been infected with the new coronavirus worldwide and more than 5 million have died.
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