Updated on 01/11/2022 12:35 pm After the Cyprus authorities announced the detection of up to 25 cases of infection of a presumed combined version of the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19, which they called deltacron, the World Health Organization (WHO) made some clarifications about the use of this term. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Lead […]
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COVID-19: WHO says more research is needed on the efficacy of omicron vaccines
The World Health Organization (WHO) said more research is needed to find out whether current COVID-19 vaccines provide adequate protection against the highly contagious omicron variant, even as manufacturers are already developing vaccines from Next Generation. The latest technical report from the world health agency aims to answer some of the big pending questions about […]
More than 50% of the European population will be infected with omicron within 6 to 8 weeks
More than 50% of the European population will have contracted the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the next 6 to 8 weeks at the current rate of transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Tuesday. The forecast is based on a calculation carried out by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME), […]
The world exceeds 300 million cases of COVID-19 and fights against omicron
The official number of cases of COVID-19, undoubtedly underestimated, surpassed the barrier of 300 million on Friday, at a time when all countries fight against the spread of the variant omicron and increase vaccination campaigns According to the AFP’s calculation based on official balances, at least 300′042,439 cases of infection have been diagnosed since the […]
How does the Omicron variant work and how can we protect ourselves from it?
Updated on 07/01/2022 09:18 pm The variant omicron it seems to have come into the world to expand very quickly. Almost the entire planet is alert to the number of infected COVID-19, as well as the lethality of this new strain. Under this premise, the National Institute of Health made it clear that the omicron […]
WHO considers it a mistake to qualify the omicron variant as “mild” because it is also killing
The omicron variant of the COVID-19 is killing people in the world and therefore should not be classified as “mild”, said the World Health Organization (WHO). The head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, recalled that the high number of cases caused by omicron, more contagious than the previous delta variant, has caused pressure on […]
WHO: tsunami of cases is saturating health systems around the world
Updated on 06/01/2022 01:48 pm The current wave of COVID-19 infections, with record numbers exceeding two million daily cases, is causing enormous pressure on health networks around the planet, warned the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The tsunami of cases is so large and fast that it has […]
WHO assures that anti-COVID vaccines “work against all variants”
Updated on 01/06/2022 12:53 pm The existing vaccines against COVID-19 “work against all the variants that are currently circulating,” said the head of the anti-COVID cell of the World Health Organization (WHO), Maria Van Kerkhove, given the rise of the omicron strain, which has infected many vaccinated people. Despite the fact that the omicron variant […]
WHO: deaths from COVID-19 continue to decline despite the “omicron tsunami”
Global cases of COVID-19 increased 70%, a percentage never seen before, in the past week from December 27 to January 2, but deaths from the disease fell 10% in that period, according to the published epidemiological report. today by the World Health Organization (WHO). Last week there were 9.5 million confirmed infections, a figure that […]
COVID-19: new wave breaks records and exceeds 2 million daily cases in the world
Updated on 06/01/2022 07:40 am The current wave of cases of COVID-19, associated with the boom in the omicron variant, continues without remitting and has already exceeded the barrier of two million global infections in the last 24 hours, according to provisional figures shown today by the World Health Organization (WHO). The national health networks […]