The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said the European Union (EU) is “on the way” for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, to become endemic, mainly due to the Ômicron variant, but “not yet is at that stage”.
“No one knows exactly when we will reach the end of the tunnel, but we will get there and what is important and what we are seeing is that we are indeed moving towards the virus becoming more endemic, but I don’t think we can say that we have already reached that point. status,” said the head of the EMA’s Biological Threat Strategy for Health and Vaccines, Marco Cavaleri.
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Speaking at the European agency’s first press conference of the year, Marco Cavaleri noted that “the virus continues to behave like a pandemic virus and the emergencies related to Ômicron clearly show […] that it is still a pandemic.”
“However, with increased immunity in the population and with Ômicron there will be a lot of natural immunity occurring beyond vaccination, [pelo que] we will be quickly moving towards a scenario that will be closer to endemicity”, he estimated.
The position comes in a period of high resurgence of cases of infection with SARS-CoV-2, which still does not translate into more hospitalizations or deaths. What has contributed to the high number of cases, which have reached record levels, is the high transmissibility of the Ômicron variant.
Marco Cavaleri portrayed that the EU is experiencing “rapid growth in infection rates in all member states”.
The situation is largely driven by the continued circulation of the Delta variant and the rapid spread of the Ômicron variant in many countries,” he said, adding that Ômicron was first detected in Europe at the end of last year, and is now spread across the world. continent and “is rapidly becoming the dominant variant, even though it appears to cause less severe disease than the Delta variant.
As for the effectiveness of anti-covid-19 vaccines, the head of the EMA’s Biological Threat Strategy for Health and Vaccines commented on studies carried out in South Africa and the United Kingdom, which revealed that protection “increases up to 90% after vaccination”. of reinforcement”.
“This confirms the importance for EU citizens to complete their primary vaccination with one of the EU-authorised vaccines and for those eligible to receive a booster vaccine,” he said.
Marco Cavaleri said that “reinfection with the Ômicron variant is still very frequent, even in fully vaccinated people”.
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