The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom, warned this Friday (18) of the “dangerous narrative” that the pandemic would be coming to an end due to the high rate of vaccination in some countries and the lesser severity of the disease. omicron variant of the coronavirus.
“The pandemic is not over until 70,000 people a week die of a treatable disease, while 83% of the population of Africa still has not received a single vaccine,” he argued at the Security Conference that opened in Munich, southern Germany.
The WHO chief warned that current conditions, with health systems in many countries overburdened and with little monitoring of the evolution of the virus, are conducive to the development of “more contagious and dangerous” variants.
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